Or become a citizen of a country that is not hostile to its population.
In many countries you can get decent education for free.
As it should be. Because educated population that is drowning in debt is probably going to lead to better outcomes in the future.
You can have poor parents, not be particularly bright, work hard to get your education and start your life with no debt at all.
The U.S. spends 1% of GDP on public support for tertiary education: https://www.oecd.org/els/soc/PF1_2_Public_expenditure_educat... (page 2, panel B). That's right in the middle of the G7: less than Canada, France, and Germany, but more than the U.K., Japan, and Italy.
What's extraordinary about the U.S. is how expensive tertiary education is overall: 2.5% of GDP, the highest in the world. American universities spend a lot more money per student on administrators, student services, facilities, etc.
People in developing countries like Vietnam study German in high school so that they can study in a German university for extremely cheap.
"Emigration for thee but not for me"
Meanwhile the smart ones who got stuck with college loans and worthless degrees figured out it's better to teach English abroad for 6x a local's salary and substantially less hours.
Plus most US universities have resources for students whose first language is not English, probably most countries have something similar. Picking it up by immersion is hard but it’s supposed to be the best way to learn
Textbooks and parents pressuring kids to focus on their education can do it. There's also a million free online resources for learning a language in English, not so many for people who speak a less infernationally-utilized language.