Student loans debate - fair game for students?

[yoscrafty]

I find expensive post high school studies to be unbelievably counter productive.

We live in a society where family, friends and the media keeps pushing this feeling that "you have to keep studying, you have to get that diploma, go to college or you'll work at McDonalds all your life".
And then what happens is that you get a flock of late teens/early twenties schmucks who are unsure of themselves and jadedly say "yeah I guess I'll go" because it's the only thing he's heard of his entire life.

Later they go get "free money" from the government (dear God I ABHOR this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc3Cm_x2mC8&t=6s) to study something unpractical like humanities and end up having nothing to show for it after graduation.

No wonder people laugh at art degrees.

Where I'm from, schools are way more cheap. You can pay in full your yearly tuition if you work full-time during the summer or with very little debt. If you screw up your studies, find that it's not the field for you or something came up that you had to stop altogether it's not as disastrous as it would have been in the States. You can still recover easily.

Not to mention that you can loans are easy to acquire and there are plenty of bursaries options available if you apply yourself at school.