The average American aged 18 to 34 carries more than $40,000 in non-mortgage debt across student loans, credit card balances, auto loans, and personal loans, with some estimates going as high as $100,000.
The cost of life, it seems to get cheaper
Out in the desert with my street sweeper
Including auto loans is crazy since those are easily 20k+ these days many cars start at 30k now it’s insane
Isn’t that how we usually do it?
Nah, it’s usually the promise of paying for college, not paying it back.
You’re right
No, this is basically debt bondage where they’d stat to conscript people.
Ohhhh shit, ok, i don’t believe we’ve done that since before the revolutionary war
… doesn’t really seem like a wise way to get loyal soldiers, but perhaps we’re due for another revolution
Drafted soldiers were fragging their officers in Vietnam. Better the unit potentially catch a charge back home than everyone get torture-killed in VC pit traps. I imagine you’d see much of the same with a modern conscript army and in fact I’m pretty sure the laundry fires and plumbing failures in the US Navy were just such events.
feels like that’s where things are headed
Yeah, it’s been morally justifiable for an extremely long time, but the masses are only now beginning to see through the wool.
I think the oligarchs may have overplayed their hand.
yeah, you can only push people so far
*forgiveness not included for indefinite conflicts that are not declared war, haha GOTTEM
