A student loan in 1977. Decades later, he’s barely cracked the principal

Dumb. The guy got an education for $5250 dollars and didn't make anything of his career.

Also, it's considered good form to make the minimum payment on student debt as most all other debt is more expensive. Hell, you can put money in the stock market to outperform a student loan rate.

And yet these new age people think having student loans is a bad thing.