*gasp* you mean when people borrow money they're expected to pay it back? This is shocking /sarcasm.

It's given to anybody who works for it.

Giving something to everybody just deflates any value that it might have.

My point is simply that loans are expected to be paid back at some point by their very nature.

If people expect to yield benefit from getting a degree with increased earning potential, then they need to take responsibility for researching and seeking a good degree that will help them earn more money in some form.

As they are now, many programs do not have good earning potential, but making a mistake does not mean you can skip out on responsibilities. It's a dangerous ideology in encouraging people to not do so.

Well no, but that's how business works, they seek to make money, and high risk = high interest rates.

That's just how business and the real world work.

It's easy to dismiss reality when it's painful and just call it an agenda, rather than look at some facts.

- Many degrees are useless and offer no real skills.

- Woman's studies falls into this category, and will not earn anybody a job.

- These degrees require time and money that could have been used elsewhere.

- Woman's studies majors are easy targets because not only do they have no real skills, but their sjw whining is off the charts, and that makes them easy targets to be attacked. When you're useless, hateful with a bad ideology, you're going to get flack.

Harsh truths.

They're right though.

The world only cares about what it can get from you, and the sooner people realize that, they better off they will be. Woman's studies provides no real marketable skills; nothing is really gained in this world by people wasting their time and money on such a degree. She did get one valuable skill; mixing drinks, but that doesn't cost 60,000 dollars and 6 years of training. That's exactly what's wrong with these degrees; they add nothing of value to society; these degrees and the things they learn do not make them more productive. All these degrees seem to really produce is whiny, and entitled children who ironically get very little in the country because of their poor choices.

It's fun, I love to learn new things, and it fits the bill. I've been moving more in the direction of programming than hard science since college, but it was a great foundation in going into engineering.

No paid for it mostly myself. Scholarships helped a little bit.

How is it stupid? If you borrow money, you should be expected to pay it back. Don't make bad decisions that lead to you being unable to pay it back.

I paid my loan off and make a lot, seems like I do.

Are they really ridiculous though? Interest rates are proportionate to the risk that the banks take; if 40% aren't paying their loans back, then it's safe to say it's a high risk.