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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If the 18 year old borrower assumes all the risk for life, then the interest rate must be zero, right?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean, it'd be ludicrous to do anything else, since education is demonstrably a net economic and societal gain.

What kind of monstrous system would try to debt trap college students?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Right, that would be absurd