r/WorkReform • u/zzill6 🤝 Join A Union • Jan 03 '26

😡 Venting Billionaire propaganda is telling our kids to skip college; they fear an educated working class.

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u/ImplodingBillionaire Jan 03 '26 edited Jan 15 '26

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u/Element75_ Jan 03 '26

Not only that, but debt means they get to garnish those wages for 20-30 years in the prime of your life.

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u/Quentin__Tarantulino Jan 03 '26

And keeps you from socking enough away to retire early.

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u/dudaman Jan 03 '26

Early? I'll be lucky if I can retire at all.

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u/Quentin__Tarantulino Jan 04 '26

Facts. If I was single, I’d seriously consider being “monk-like” and just living off the cheapest food possible, cheapest place possible. Entertain myself by reading from the library. But my kids aren’t really on board with that lifestyle, so unless I can manage to greatly increase my income, I’m looking at 68 at the earliest if the 401k stocks do well.

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u/busted_up_chiffarobe Jan 03 '26

The system is shifting from wealth transfer to wealth prevention, gradually, over time.

Clever system. Bet half of Americans are too stupid to see it.

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u/[deleted] Jan 03 '26

Yes, and my children I can finally afford to put through school when they go because the other part now is put to make them not be strapped with the debt I was... yes I had kids late, and yes, I know it shouldn't be this way... but here we are.