crustpunk_trotsky posted:
i'm looking forward to the day when we can start trading student debt obligations on the open market. it'll be like the good old days of wealthy patronage, maybe if my students' grades drop I'll threaten to call in the loan and ship them off to a workhouse. gotta keep that investment in shape!
lmao
tpaine posted:
i'm as gay as a two dollar bill.
discipline posted:crustpunk_trotsky posted:
i'm looking forward to the day when we can start trading student debt obligations on the open market. it'll be like the good old days of wealthy patronage, maybe if my students' grades drop I'll threaten to call in the loan and ship them off to a workhouse. gotta keep that investment in shape!this has already happened
that's why they are pushing loans so hard, it's the new housing bubble. and unlike a mortgage BY LAW you can't wiggle so fast out of this one
im just really hyped for neo-feudalism so I can finally realize my dream to be a knight-errant
It shocks me that people have the nerve to say there’s a “culture of anti-intellectualism” in the country at the same time as millions of millions of mediocrities are wasting their time and dreams on university. We need less intellectualism, not more.
Ironicwarcriminal posted:
This is the fault of a left-wing pro-education ideology that promises the world but fails to deliver.
It shocks me that people have the nerve to say there’s a “culture of anti-intellectualism” in the country at the same time as millions of millions of mediocrities are wasting their time and dreams on university. We need less intellectualism, not more.
agreed. a lot of people are in grad school or getting second business degrees for no reason, what we need are some canal projects, some rural electrification, railroads etc. to get all of this unmobilized ass working.
near where I work there's this weird dilapidated lot with a bunch of rotting greenhouses and trailers on it, I think that's what in Maoist terms is known as "The Countryside," we should send a cohort down to it.
Lessons posted:
i'm not sure of the specifics but i'm under the impression that there's much greater involvement in student loans on the part of the federal government than even mortgages. iirc they're all absolutely backed by the government and they even issue many, (even pell grants aside). presumably this was the reason, whether explicit or tacit, for the changes that made it impossible to default.
actually it was trumped up hysteria about sneaky law students and doctors filing for bankruptcy right out of law/med school + "every student should be able to get credit and obviously the only way to do that is to make it non-expungeable." came in gradually, too
discipline posted:
ahaha I spent like 40 hours in the library this week so far now tell me THAt's not labor discipline!!!
*everyone as a crowd* It's not labor discipline. *stares blankly*
Ironicwarcriminal posted:
This is the fault of a left-wing pro-education ideology that promises the world but fails to deliver.
It shocks me that people have the nerve to say there’s a “culture of anti-intellectualism” in the country at the same time as millions of millions of mediocrities are wasting their time and dreams on university. We need less intellectualism, not more.
the purpose of academy isnt intellectualism but mere interpellation, nobody comes out of college able to think about things in a way they couldnt have figured out for themselves