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Poor Millennials

47 pointsby moklickover 7 years ago

3 comments

ImSkepticalover 7 years ago
I quite like the visual design of this article. Very pretty.<p>The contents of the article, I&#x27;m less sure about. This line stuck out to me.<p>&gt;“I’m 25 and I’m still in the same place I was when I earned minimum wage.” Four days a week she works at a dental office, Fridays she nannies, weekends she babysits. And still she couldn’t keep up with her rent, car lease and student loans.<p>She works at a dental office, I&#x27;m guessing she isn&#x27;t a dentist or dental hygienist (both careers can expect to make 70k plus). So... Why does she have a lot of student loan debt? What did she go to college for? To become a part time office secretary and a baby sitter?<p>I&#x27;d have more sympathy for millennials if I knew them at a greater distance. As a millennial though, I was not afforded that luxury.<p>College has many useless subjects and so many more useless students. Why, for example, are you getting an English degree? I enjoyed writing and reading and took many high level English classes in college - but as a degree? To focus on it? Why? What&#x27;s the point? You can pass an English class without reading the literature, just by getting summaries on Wikipedia and writing about them. If your degree can be obtained reliably by such tricks, how valuable is it?<p>The change we need to make is removing the obstacles around discharging student loan debt via bankruptcy. Then, I trust, lenders wouldn&#x27;t lend to students without a good career plan, students who took on too much debt could get out of it, and schools would stop the crazy artificial inflation of their prices.
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steanneover 7 years ago
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=15927902" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=15927902</a>
oreo81over 7 years ago
To summarize: I and many of my friends have made poor life decisions and It&#x27;s all my parents fault!
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