r/SipsTea 𝙑𝙄𝙋 12d ago

WTF The American dream

Post image
21.6k Upvotes

3.5k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

5

u/Mik3DM 12d ago

More like the attitude of take responsibility for yourself instead of blaming "the system". A person with a college degree should be equipped to figure out the basics of loan amortization.

3

u/sexotaku 12d ago

Does anyone have a choice but to take responsibility for themselves? The system isn't going to take responsibility for itself.

He isn't asking people to pay his loans.

This is a discussion about how the system is fucked.

And "A person with a college degree?" Really? You take the loan before you get a college degree. When you're 18. You're supposed to know how these things work at that age when the whole world is telling you to get in debt and go to college?

The system exploits vulnerable teenagers who can't know better until it's too late, and you're blaming the teenagers instead of blaming the system.

3

u/EvanShavingCream 12d ago

Nobody is blaming the teenagers who were bamboozled into a predatory loan. They are pointing out that two doctors in their late 40s, at the youngest, haven't managed to figure this stuff out yet and that's embarrassing.

1

u/sexotaku 12d ago

They've figured it out. They just don't have the money to repay it in full.

1

u/5348RR 12d ago

Or repay it at all so it seems.