Get a Tesla, they said
(media.greatawakening.win)
You're viewing a single comment thread. View all comments, or full comment thread.
Comments (48)
sorted by:
Student loans should be dumped on principle. Any payments made should be returned with interest.
The loans didn't educate 95 percent of the people who used them. It's all a fraud.
They used them to pay for fantastically useful majors like "women's studies".
Even in useful majors, you could use that time in a lot of professions actually being trained and working when training, while making money instead of losing it.
Essentially, if you are aiming for a specific field, hands on training and experience for that field will almost always be more valuable, and making money while you do it means that you can spend that money on necessities instead of spending all that money on schooling.
Obviously for the medical field, you need more specialized classes and more time. Higher risk to everyone around you and very important to make sure everything is done precisely the correct way with almost 0 wiggle room unless the government tells you to inject people of course.
And also for legal stuff, because our laws are so obtuse it requires many years to actually even begin to understand all of them.
They created all sorts of college majors in the past 30 years, going along with the student loan program, and because of student loans being so prevalent, the colleges kept raising their tuition along the way. Colleges are just money machines now. The economic advantages of college are limited to only a few majors now.
"underwater transgender basket weaving"
Not until I get my money back.
And I had a student loan at 9%.
My son paid his off in less than two years after he graduated and got a decent job in the engineering field. He also saved enough to pay cash for a foreclosure home. He didn't spend $3 or $4 a day on Starbucks and the like. Probably didn't buy any clothes during those two years, and shared a house with a few others.
Good for him.
I was broke for the first 3 years after college. Saved everything I could, and learned to live very frugally and within my means. It forced me to have discipline.
Even now, I never carry a balance on my cc. If I can’t afford it, I don’t need it.
My younger sister, on the other hand... my parents had more money when she was going to college. She never learned that discipline. She is always in debt, and pays the minimum on her credit card. Different mindset, and she seems to be the norm.
Unless my wife buys me some article of clothing, I don't buy clothes :) I bought several shirts from a Goodwill store about 10 years ago and still have them. I consider not buying new stuff unless I really need it a victory over the Godless corporations that brainwash people into thinking they have to have the latest whatever, the best example being a new I-phone coming out every year. I paid about $250 for the laptop I use (bought 6 years ago). A few months ago the hard disk failed. I bought a solid-state hard drive for it, and the increase in speed was amazing! I don't understand the need to have something take 3 seconds instead of 4, which is what the difference between a $1500 laptop and mine seems to be.
It’s doable for sure, but life does get in the way.
I had one at 3%.