62% of Student Loan Borrowers Say They're Likely to Boycott Repayments

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62% of Student Loan Borrowers Say They're Likely to Boycott Repayments: Poll
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I think this is an example of what people say in surveys being drastically different than what they'll do in reality.

Today's phrase is "garnish your wages." If their protest doesn't involve moving to another country it's not going to happen. I've thought about it too, but my contingency,for that definitely involves moving to Scandinavia.

Ah bullshit. Civil rights weren't achieved by threatening to leave and not be the oppressor's problem anymore, they were achieved by standing ones ground damned the consequences. No one wants to be a martyr, but that's how battles are unfortunately won, especially against today's brand of fascists.

More of this. It's time for mass protests instead of complaining and then working a 9 to 5 and browsing Instagram.

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The US government: let's enable the economy to get to the point where it's basically impossible for young people to even participate in society.

Also the US government: damn, why do people keep going on suicidal mass shootings? If only there was anything we could do about it.

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Exactly, they’d be ruining their credit scores.

Ppl need to know that student loans (federal or private) and medical related debts don't impact your credit scores nearly as much as say private loans, mortgage, auto loan, etc.

LOL who tf cares about their american credit score

People who want to buy a house...

Most of them are never going to be able to afford a house.

Can’t even rent without a credit score a lot of the time

Right so we should ruin their credit scores so it gets harder to rent (yes rental agencies check) or buy a car (even if they get one, their interest rate will be super high). Better we just fuck people over since they can't afford a house, right?

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My credt score is not a choice. Its something i have to deal with.

Leave the country. Rent a house there instead.

Ok so I'll move to Ireland, since they speak English and I could keep my job I'm sure I'll have much better luck renting there XD. Go away troll

Lemmy.world kids will never understand the actual world and how it works..

You can't just all complain you're getting fucked AND agree to all do nothing about it. The rest of the world is watching and laughing at the USA right now.

Don't pay your American banks, there is nothing stopping you from doing that.

You say kids, but you're talking about people who are mostly mid 20s-40s. Exactly how old are you, geezer?

20-40s who can "afford to move" should have already done so. Boiling frogs, just sitting there. Owe 80k to Chase Bank? Just. Fucking. Leave.

Many people can't afford to move. When were you born? Just give me a decade. You sound like a Boomer. Born into a fantastic economic situation, ruining it for the future, and then sitting on the sidelines with stupid fucking opinions

Calling an outsider looking in, a "boomer," doesn't help the situation. My 25-30s were spent just-fucking-escaping that cesspool. Again, if you owe more than say.. 10k, it makes more sense to take your diploma to another country.

10k is way more money than it takes to get to Canada, Germany, France, Spain, Australia, anywhere really. Every single other "industrialized" nation pays for their citizens healthcare because it's cheaper in the long run.

If you can find a SEA country that will take you? Even more power to you.

Don't see the world from your own lemmy.world myopic-viewpoint. Big, big banks' collateral will be fucked when these types of loans all collapse and get downgraded by fitch(/etc). Not paying will just shorten the fuse for these trillion $ orgs.

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I have family here asshole. Im not leaving my nieces.

You're a coward for even thinking that is a real option for most people.

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I think you underestimate how many people simply can't pay their loans at all

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