The loan amounts, interest, etc. are purposefully obfuscated during a process that artificially places duress on the student and forces them to make a fast decision.
(Example: the student has to go through 3 preliminary steps and commit to signing up for classes before they even get information about what loans are available — then they have a three week window to complete the process and continue with school, or forfeit thousands of dollars they have already spent and thousands of hours sunk into the college application process.)
This is on top of virtually all of society telling them that college is their only hope for a future, and reassuring them that it is worth the costs in future earnings potential.
The 17-19 year old prospective student, wholley unprepared by the mandatory public schooling they’ve received at the hands of teachers unions, ‘socialized’ by big tech, big media, and the artificially-created bully-groups of their high-school peer groups into an ”it’s the next stage of your life!” mindset, and “advised” by boomer parents who know nothing about the transmutation of colleges and rely on U.S. News & World Report College Rankings(!) encouraged by the Universities themselves — that kid is a sheep with one foot already in the slaughterhouse and still has no idea that they are purchasing Marxist indoctrination rather than a real education or the golden ticket into the job market advertised.
And when they look around at the alternatives they see a slew of jobs requiring a degree, a bunch of dead-end service work alternatives, ‘gig’ work, entrepreneur “opportunities”, superceleb-“contests”, and so-called ‘trades’, each of which has a running scam of its own (usually one that leaves the worker broken-bodied and pushed out just as middle-age sets in, or an indebted, abandoned ‘independent contractor’ “gig-on-steroids” ready for the plucking).
The loan amounts, interest, etc. are purposefully obfuscated during a process that artificially places duress on the student and forces them to make a fast decision.
(Example: the student has to go through 3 preliminary steps and commit to signing up for classes before they even get information about what loans are available — then they have a three week window to complete the process and continue with school, or forfeit thousands of dollars they have already spent and thousands of hours sunk into the college application process.)
This is on top of virtually all of society telling them that college is their only hope for a future, and reassuring them that it is worth the costs in future earnings potential.
The 17-19 year old prospective student, wholley unprepared by the mandatory public schooling they’ve received at the hands of teachers unions, ‘socialized’ by big tech, big media, and the artificially-created bully-groups of their high-school peer groups into an ”it’s the next stage of your life!” mindset, and “advised” by boomer parents who know nothing about the transmutation of colleges and rely on U.S. News & World Report College Rankings(!) encouraged by the Universities themselves — that kid is a sheep with one foot already in the slaughterhouse and still has no idea that they are purchasing Marxist indoctrination rather than a real education or the golden ticket into the job market advertised.
And when they look around at the alternatives they see a slew of jobs requiring a degree, a bunch of dead-end service work alternatives, ‘gig’ work, entrepreneur “opportunities”, superceleb-“contests”, and so-called ‘trades’, each of which has a running scam of its own (usually one that leaves the worker broken-bodied and pushed out just as middle-age sets in, or an indebted, abandoned ‘independent contractor’ “gig-on-steroids” ready for the plucking).