Who kept telling them that the only path to prosperity was to go to college and get a degree, any degree, and that taking on any amount of debt would be worth it?
For the record, I dropped out during my second semester, having paid up until that point with a small amount of savings. This was after getting paid in some form for helping out with my grandparent's video store during the summers dating back to when I was six, getting paid to do the grunt work for my mother in real estate, helping with my father's side shtuff.
I was supposed to takeover that business when my grandparent's died, instead my boomer aunt sold it off for pennies on the dollar. My boomer mother had setup a custodial investment account for me to use, I put in my savings and my college fund into a couple stocks which if left alone I would not have to work today, checked on it to sell before the tech bubble popped a couple years later and the money was just gone and the account was closed. Now my boomer father keeps telling my baby half sisters, who are young enough to be my kids, that if they don't get a degree they'll be worthless.
From the way you post, I'd say you bought into the propaganda at some point.
Family businesses that live for generations don't just go to the oldest in line, they go to the one who puts in the time and effort to grow and build the business. So did I start it? No. Did I help build it? Yep. Did I fail to attempt to start my own after that? Nope, they just never managed to get off the ground due to lack of funding. Why did I have a lack of funding? Because my own parent stole my money.
None that deals with the more important question that you glossed over. Why in the nine hells did my boomer aunt have control of and sell my inheritance? She had conservatorship of my grandmother after her stroke, used that power to divorce her parents, which killed my grandfather, stick her in a care home and sell off all her assets. I have a reason to be pissed, and that's not too far from what the boomers in government have been doing for the past thirty years.
Who is asking for their college debt to be forgiven??
Who kept telling them that the only path to prosperity was to go to college and get a degree, any degree, and that taking on any amount of debt would be worth it?
For the record, I dropped out during my second semester, having paid up until that point with a small amount of savings. This was after getting paid in some form for helping out with my grandparent's video store during the summers dating back to when I was six, getting paid to do the grunt work for my mother in real estate, helping with my father's side shtuff.
I was supposed to takeover that business when my grandparent's died, instead my boomer aunt sold it off for pennies on the dollar. My boomer mother had setup a custodial investment account for me to use, I put in my savings and my college fund into a couple stocks which if left alone I would not have to work today, checked on it to sell before the tech bubble popped a couple years later and the money was just gone and the account was closed. Now my boomer father keeps telling my baby half sisters, who are young enough to be my kids, that if they don't get a degree they'll be worthless.
You and I are both millennials that didn’t listen to the propaganda and were better for it.
So you didn’t get a business that you didn’t start or build? So... start your own?
From the way you post, I'd say you bought into the propaganda at some point.
Family businesses that live for generations don't just go to the oldest in line, they go to the one who puts in the time and effort to grow and build the business. So did I start it? No. Did I help build it? Yep. Did I fail to attempt to start my own after that? Nope, they just never managed to get off the ground due to lack of funding. Why did I have a lack of funding? Because my own parent stole my money.
None that deals with the more important question that you glossed over. Why in the nine hells did my boomer aunt have control of and sell my inheritance? She had conservatorship of my grandmother after her stroke, used that power to divorce her parents, which killed my grandfather, stick her in a care home and sell off all her assets. I have a reason to be pissed, and that's not too far from what the boomers in government have been doing for the past thirty years.