• modernangel@sh.itjust.works
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    6 days ago

    The other piece of this puzzle is higher education is the pathway out of generational poverty, but if you make it unaffordable without aid then you can con young people into risking their necks for colonialist oil wars in exchange for GI Bill tuition assistance

  • TuringCompleteSocialist@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    This was always the plan, students have historically been the first domino to fall in many major revolutions. This effectively neuters them from the ability to rise up against the system. Can’t protest when you are living paycheck to paycheck with life crippling debt. Unless of course, you destroy the whole system that holds your debt.