To be fair, it isn't: "REEE I SPENT 100K ON UNI TO BE AN INTERN"
It's: "REE I SPENT 100K ON UNI TO BE AN INTERN PAID $12 AN HOUR WITH $900/MONTH STUDENT LOANS TO PAY." Many kids were conned into college, myself included. I have a PhD and am not even working in my field right now, and underpaid for my background to boot. It's one of those situations where you've put people in positions where they have nothing to lose, so yeah, they're angry.
Doesn't help when housing prices double and their dreams of a home and family vanish over night. A bunch of boomers talk about how kids are lazy and entitled fundamentally misunderstand how hard it is to just live in the current environment. I'm not some retard in the city either, I live in a very low cost of living region of hte US and even here rent is going up and housing prices have gotten stupid. If you want economic growth you need to do something about the debt thousands of people were conned into taking. I'm not really suffering from it, had a good university that paid for most of my masters/PhD. But thousands of inexperienced workers up to their eyeballs in debt with no hope of ever living a better life is not going to fix anything. Partial or total debt forgiveness would help a lot, just limit it to citizens, then make it illegal for companies to hire foreigners and tariff the shit out of foreign goods, and watch how suddenly we have a gigantic national recovery.
Of course you'd need a strong government for that, probably a national socialist one.
turn_coat 3 points 2.3 years ago
To be fair, it isn't: "REEE I SPENT 100K ON UNI TO BE AN INTERN"
It's: "REE I SPENT 100K ON UNI TO BE AN INTERN PAID $12 AN HOUR WITH $900/MONTH STUDENT LOANS TO PAY." Many kids were conned into college, myself included. I have a PhD and am not even working in my field right now, and underpaid for my background to boot. It's one of those situations where you've put people in positions where they have nothing to lose, so yeah, they're angry.
Doesn't help when housing prices double and their dreams of a home and family vanish over night. A bunch of boomers talk about how kids are lazy and entitled fundamentally misunderstand how hard it is to just live in the current environment. I'm not some retard in the city either, I live in a very low cost of living region of hte US and even here rent is going up and housing prices have gotten stupid. If you want economic growth you need to do something about the debt thousands of people were conned into taking. I'm not really suffering from it, had a good university that paid for most of my masters/PhD. But thousands of inexperienced workers up to their eyeballs in debt with no hope of ever living a better life is not going to fix anything. Partial or total debt forgiveness would help a lot, just limit it to citizens, then make it illegal for companies to hire foreigners and tariff the shit out of foreign goods, and watch how suddenly we have a gigantic national recovery.
Of course you'd need a strong government for that, probably a national socialist one.