Millenial Poverty

https://medium.com/@mshannabrooks/but-seriously-lets-talk-about-millennial-poverty-526066ad9adb

by Selfcommit • 11 years ago

5 2 11 years ago

medium.com

Selfcommit• 11 years ago

When does this come to a head, and what does that look like? These questions make me anxious about the future.

briandear• 11 years ago

"But I also had $17 in my bank account, $65,000 in debt to my name, and $800 in rent due in 24 days."

..and who's fault is that? Achieving $65,000 in debt for a degree that likely has dubious market value isn't necessarily among the smartest things one could do. With an internship at a public radio station, I'd be willing to be her degree is in something like "Mass Communication" or some other nebulous field. If she incurred $65K to get an engineering degree from Stanford, that's one thing, but allowing that much debt, then having the audacity to complain about it -- that's kind of silly. She could just as easily got a mass communication degree from a state school for far less and would still be just as unemployed as she is now, but with far less debt. Or, she could do what people often do when they want to buy something -- she could have worked while in school.

She claims "good" jobs are one that requires a degree. That's nonsense. I know welders and plumbers that make $140K+ per year. There's always opportunity for those willing to look beyond their "privilege" and actually get one's hands dirty.

Millenial Poverty

Related Stories