The Human Face of Student Debt

[cookderosa]

I have compassion and pity because it's not 1 or 2 people, it's TRILLIONS of dollars worth of people. Trillions. Whether or not you feel sorry for someone in this video isn't really the macro-point, it's kinda the micro-point, which is easy to dismiss as stupidity. I used to have an attitude of "well you should have known better sucka" which would be true if there were EVER a point in secondary education that someone taught people about obtaining a postsecondary education responsibly. Fact is, that it's learn as you go. Who sat you down and taught you, at age 17, to choose a career with good ROI, how to borrow responsibly, to evaluate the quality of colleges you were considering (using some random criteria made up by some expert) and then how to apply that in the workplace. Maybe your parent did, maybe a teacher did, maybe a counselor did - and if that's true, you were one of the lucky ones.
The fact is that there is an enormous hole surrounding this topic, and most people fall into it.