62% of Student Loan Borrowers Say They're Likely to Boycott Repayments: Poll
www.commondreams.org
As resumption of educational debt repayment looms, more than 7 in 10 borrowers say they are taking on extra work, while half say they don't know whether they'll be able to make payments come October.
  • bobs_monkey@lemm.ee
    435·
    3 年前

    Ah bullshit. Civil right wasn’t achieved by threatening to leave and not be the oppressor’s problem anymore, it was 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.

      • pinkdrunkenelephants@sopuli.xyz
        51·
        3 年前

        Then people will just take their checks through an LLC and be independent contractors. Or go into business for themselves. Or just revolt.

        The last one is the most worrisome.

          • pinkdrunkenelephants@sopuli.xyz
            31·
            3 年前

            That’s partly why it’s so worrisome. 10 years ago, it would have meant something, but now it’s too late, and I fear now it will only negatively contribute to climate collapse and cause the genocide we hope to avoid.

            I think it might be too late to save the country and we all ought to get several state governments to secede… and if a civil war brews because of that, then it would at least have some semblance of a positive outcome.

    • ineedaunion @lemm.ee
      10·
      3 年前

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