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>>>A large group of these people are having a revenue problem, not a spending problem

I walked out of college in the Great Recession with a 900/month student loan debt <<<

You didn't make it one sentence before you undermined your premise. Explain how a 900/month student loan payment isn't a result of a spending problem.

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Oh we can get into how at 17 years old all of society was convincing me that I needed a college degree or I’d work minimum wage jobs and live in poverty but that’s a separate conversation around how we don’t equip our children to make good decisions.

By the time I was equipped enough mentally to make good decisions it was too late because why not also make student loans the only ones not dischargeable in bankruptcy. If you want to argue that the OP was talking about that kind of spending, especially in light of them discussing their own college degree, well that’s an argument I guess you could try and make.

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