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<p>Of course it is not a good thing that students graduate with a lot of debt. (although remember that the average debt of a graduate that has any debt is about $30k, so this person clearly is an outlier).</p>
<p>However, I don’t understand why people feeling that the students were put in that position.</p>
<p>They put themselves in that position. </p>
<p>And I don’t think it is our “best and brightest” who do that to themselves.
The “best and brightest” use the tools they have to determine how much debt they would have, the payments they would make, the starting salaries of specific jobs, the likelihood of getting a job in today’s job market, etc. and then make better decisions.</p>
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<p>Well, we could make it illegal to take on that much debt. That would stop it.</p>
<p>People make bad decisions that society may think is not a good thing - doing drugs, not taking school seriously, etc.</p>