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sc94597 on 05 October 2015
spurgeonryan said:
Aeolus451 said:


Just about everyone either gets a scholarship or a student loan. 



The problem with student loans is not the loan program, it is the Colleges. The purposefully prey on young adults and desperate adults trying to better their life. There needs to be regulations made to deal with this, just like the government has imposed on those payday loans that charge 1599 % interest.

Too many go to online colleges or regular colleges thinking life is going to be great after they accomplish this great feat. Then afterwards they discover they have no skills and the college will not even help them find a job. So you have 2 or 3 degrees but still work at Mcdonalds just to make ends meat.

I can only imagine that owning a college is as lucrative as being a banker.

@ Bolded I have no sympathy for somebody who goes into a field they know is oversaturated and then can't find a job afterwards. That is to all the art, music, psychology, english and generic liberal arts majors out there. Most private colleges are not owned by any single person. They are owned by institutions and tend to be non-profit. Public schools do the same thing by the way. 



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Aeolus451 on 05 October 2015
spurgeonryan said:
Aeolus451 said:


Just about everyone either gets a scholarship or a student loan. 



The problem with student loans is not the loan program, it is the Colleges. The purposefully prey on young adults and desperate adults trying to better their life. There needs to be regulations made to deal with this, just like the government has imposed on those payday loans that charge 1599 % interest.

Too many go to online colleges or regular colleges thinking life is going to be great after they accomplish this great feat. Then afterwards they discover they have no skills and the college will not even help them find a job. So you have 2 or 3 degrees but still work at Mcdonalds just to make ends meat.

I can only imagine that owning a college is as lucrative as being a banker.


On the other hand, a lot of teenagers don't do any research on any degrees and what jobs are open to people with that degree or others. They just go to college and figure it out somewhere down the line.  That's more or less the kid's fault for not researching anything and ending up with 3 degrees with no career.The information is out there. You can't regulate a college or force a college into giving "wisdom" to teenagers who are more interested in partying and mating with anything that smiles at them. 



Kagerow on 05 October 2015

A trickle down economic supporters even in here.

I have yet to read anyone explaining to me how increasing the supply will somehow increase the demand.

The chain of the problem started when employers realized that they didn't had to pay for works being done by employee anymore. What forces them anyway? As long as someone else pays their employee fair sum, his business won't sink.

Turns out everyone thought the same idea, and small business no longer have any demands to latch onto.



sc94597 on 05 October 2015
Kagerow said:
A trickle down economic supporters even in here.

Do not exist. "Trickle down economics" is a made up strawman to marginalize actual knowledge in microeconomics. 



Kagerow on 05 October 2015
sc94597 said:
Kagerow said:
A trickle down economic supporters even in here.

Do not exist. "Trickle down economics" is a made up strawman to marginalize actual knowledge in microeconomics. 

So you want an actual term, sure. Supply side economics then.

I was pretty sure it was about Macroeconomics too, not Microeconomics.



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sc94597 on 05 October 2015
Kagerow said:
sc94597 said:
Kagerow said:
A trickle down economic supporters even in here.

Do not exist. "Trickle down economics" is a made up strawman to marginalize actual knowledge in microeconomics. 

So you want an actual term, sure. Supply side economics then.

I was pretty sure it was about Macroeconomics too, not Microeconomics.

Supply-side economics is a real thing. I often see people use the strawman of "trickle down economics" to try to dispute microeconomic arguments. But yeah, supply-side economics is a macroeconomics school. But even then it is overstated and over simplified. 

Heck, both Karl Marx and Adam Smith (who both obviously didn't believe in laissez-faire) were supply-siders. 



Jimbo1337 on 05 October 2015
Game_God said:
Jimbo1337 said:

Take out a student loan like the rest of us. 

Done


Tunnel vision is a great affliction...

And what do you call people who call others brainless?

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Rab on 05 October 2015
teamsilent13 said:
Rab said:

US political system is screwed

Oligarchy - a government in which control is exercised by a small group of individuals whose authority generally is based on wealth or power.

Nice try, but in an Oligarchy the fundamental difference is that common people don't vote. We vote on every candidate. Appointed officials are sworn in and that is a debatable thing that could be changed. However, there's nothing Oligarchical about voting for the President of the US.


Democracy in name only, most know where the real power is, Oligarchy models the US political environment better



Game_God on 05 October 2015
Jimbo1337 said:
Game_God said:


Tunnel vision is a great affliction...

And what do you call people who call others brainless?

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=7554798


Here's a pro tip, learn to read! So I repeat: Tunnel vision is a great affliction...



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Jimbo1337 on 05 October 2015
Game_God said:
Jimbo1337 said:

And what do you call people who call others brainless?

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=7554798


Here's a pro tip, learn to read! So I repeat: Tunnel vision is a great affliction...

You should follow your own advice