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
    415·
    1 year ago

    Ah bullshit. Civil rights weren’t achieved by threatening to leave and not be the oppressor’s problem anymore, they were 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
        51·
        1 year ago

        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
            31·
            1 year ago

            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·
      1 year ago

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