KilroywasNOTHere
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Lets not use phrases that carry heavy connotations of anti-Semitism.
I thought shekkles were a silver coin used in ancient times.
Average college debt is $26,000. That's a $300/month payment to pay back in ten years
depending on where you live and how much schooling you go through. I fully believe college would have wrung me out for a whole lot more.
The median American mortgage payment is $1500.
The reality is that a lot of American's money problems are due to living above their means and not using their money wisely; beyond that, the people legitimately struggling with student loan payments are a small minority.
except the standard of living has steadily gone down over the past 30 some odd years or so as the job market has dried up due to automation and inflation has skyrocketed constantly because our politicians seem to think that wealth comes from printing presses, I mean heck this is starting to affect even the wealthy upper class I mean look at the state of LA and San fransico. In the 80s these places were considered the jewel of America, now they look like a place you'd see in a devastated 3rd world country and the blight is starting to spread to other places.
Funny how we used to think that both globilization and Autmattion would lead to some kind of post-scarcity utopia and so far it seems to be leading towards somthing more akin to the hunger games.
Personally, I blame the idea that everyone needs to go to college. College should be for those who really need it, not for everyone.
my guess you can blame it on the unions who treat a degree as a kind of political status symbol rather than a certificate that you know how to do your job. Jobs that only took some trading courses or a basic associates now require a bachelors or even a masters, not because anything within the job needs it or, or that they pay even justifies it, but because the boards want to carry around this facade that everyone in their group is essentially the most highly elite and educated.
TL;DR the biggest problem plauging our society right now is the american dollar doesin't have near as much value as it used to.