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Meet a first-generation college grad with $250,000 in student debt:
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Date: January 25th, 2022 9:57 AM Author: walnut underhanded international law enforcement agency https://www.businessinsider.com/meet-first-generation-college-graduate-student-loan-debt-american-dream-2022-1 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5016337&forum_id=2#43843520) |
Date: January 25th, 2022 10:01 AM Author: avocado trip kitchen cuckoldry ljfl (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5016337&forum_id=2#43843545) |
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Date: January 25th, 2022 10:08 AM Author: Coral Step-uncle's House he got a phd to progress in his career as a probation officer? wtf? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5016337&forum_id=2#43843598) |
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Date: January 25th, 2022 10:11 AM Author: purple church building he's now a community developer now ljl
also, police officers have a cargo cult mentality around higher education |
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Date: January 25th, 2022 10:13 AM Author: stirring turdskin address (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5016337&forum_id=2#43843638) |
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Date: January 25th, 2022 10:25 AM Author: At-the-ready very tactful point affirmative action eat shit and die, boomer (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5016337&forum_id=2#43843757) |
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Date: January 25th, 2022 10:28 AM Author: stirring turdskin address (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5016337&forum_id=2#43843779) |
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Date: January 25th, 2022 1:21 PM Author: Razzle Seedy Generalized Bond (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5016337&forum_id=2#43844747) |
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Date: January 25th, 2022 3:42 PM Author: Thriller bat shit crazy house ceo (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5016337&forum_id=2#43845588) |
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Date: January 25th, 2022 10:16 AM Author: beady-eyed hateful therapy The American dream always has been and continues to be a con, welcome to America! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5016337&forum_id=2#43843660) |
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Date: January 25th, 2022 10:27 AM Author: Unhinged clown if he goes back to El Salvador they can't collect
/just saying
#sendthemback #excepthookerstheycanstay |
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Date: January 25th, 2022 10:29 AM Author: Unhinged clown "While student loans are the only form of debt Sorto has ever had, he said he sees no end in sight."
I mean when you have $250k in one kind of debt, what's the purpose of other types of debt
that's the price of two supercars, you could even buy a house for $250k before Joe Biden's Economic Miracle |
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Date: January 25th, 2022 10:31 AM Author: ebony native idiot His story sounds pretty impressive. He came here from the third world with nothing, copped a chill government job, and did well enough that he has the luxury to quit to pursue MY PH.D. Not sure what he’s complaining about. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5016337&forum_id=2#43843805) |
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Date: January 25th, 2022 1:20 PM Author: Razzle-dazzle Magical Son Of Senegal In America we are currently normalizing being victimized by one's own actions and decisions and externalizing the blame to society at large (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5016337&forum_id=2#43844744) |
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Date: January 25th, 2022 1:27 PM Author: Razzle Seedy Generalized Bond (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5016337&forum_id=2#43844764) |
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Date: January 25th, 2022 10:32 AM Author: Contagious nursing home genital piercing But Sorto ended up with a different plan. At a college fair his senior year of high school, he realized higher education could be a reality for him. He attended a local university, thanks in part to Pell grants, scholarships for low-income students. Then, to progress in his chosen career as a probation officer, he sought a Master's degree, and later a Ph.D.
He now has $250,513 in student debt.
"I had to continue to provide for my mother and my grandmother, and so I had no choice but to start accumulating debt," Sorto told Insider. "It's the price I had to pay to achieve the American Dream."
lmao so it wasn't even the schooling, it was just living expenses for his immigrant family that didn't work. |
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Date: January 25th, 2022 10:34 AM Author: Unhinged clown ljl
i didn't know you needed a graduate degree to be a probation officer
isn't it basically looking at dicks? |
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Date: January 25th, 2022 10:35 AM Author: stirring turdskin address (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5016337&forum_id=2#43843836) |
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Date: January 25th, 2022 10:43 AM Author: Offensive stimulating boltzmann And the grandmother still lives in El Salvador (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5016337&forum_id=2#43843895) |
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Date: January 25th, 2022 10:44 AM Author: Unhinged clown big, if true (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5016337&forum_id=2#43843898) |
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Date: January 25th, 2022 10:45 AM Author: Offensive stimulating boltzmann “He also picked up side jobs to help support his mother, sister, and his grandma, who still lives in El Salvador.” (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5016337&forum_id=2#43843902) |
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Date: January 25th, 2022 10:45 AM Author: Unhinged clown sounds like he should be in jail (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5016337&forum_id=2#43843905) |
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Date: January 25th, 2022 10:45 AM Author: Unhinged clown "College was viewed as a luxury," Sorto said. "And because my mother did not have an understanding of how much of a difference having a college degree would be to our livelihood, she was adamant on me pursuing a trade degree, a mechanical degree, an electrician degree or something that was a six-month or yearlong course."
sounds like his mama was a wise latina |
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Date: January 25th, 2022 10:46 AM Author: Unhinged clown Log in
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HOME ECONOMY Meet a first-generation college grad with $250,000 in student debt: 'It's the price I had to pay to achieve the American Dream' Ayelet Sheffey Jan 23, 2022, 5:30 AM College graduation College graduation Getty Images When Juan Antonio Sorto moved to America at age six, he began learning that education was the path to the American Dream. To achieve that dream, he took on what is now a $250,000 student-debt load. He wants an answer on Biden's plan to address the crisis: "If you're going to do something, then do it." Get a daily selection of our top stories based on your reading preferences. Email address Email address By clicking ‘Sign up’, you agree to receive marketing emails from Insider as well as other partner offers and accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.
Juan Antonio Sorto thought his education would end after high school.
His family moved to Houston from El Salvador when he was 6, and Sorto, now 36, faced the challenge of navigating a completely new culture while maintaining his Latino roots. He said part of that was viewing high school "as the end goal to your education."
But Sorto ended up with a different plan. At a college fair his senior year of high school, he realized higher education could be a reality for him. He attended a local university, thanks in part to Pell grants, scholarships for low-income students. Then, to progress in his chosen career as a probation officer, he sought a Master's degree, and later a Ph.D.
He now has $250,513 in student debt.
"I had to continue to provide for my mother and my grandmother, and so I had no choice but to start accumulating debt," Sorto told Insider. "It's the price I had to pay to achieve the American Dream."
While Sorto knows he voluntarily took on debt, experts agree the student-loan system is confusing and bureaucratic. It can lead borrowers seeking financial assistance on their education down a road of compounding interest and a lifetime of debt.
Juan Antonio Sorto Juan Antonio Sorto, 36, is a first-generation college student with $250,000 in debt. Juan Antonio Sorto The $1.7 trillion student-debt crisis grows each day, and data shows that it disproportionately impacts Latino borrowers and other communities of color. Scholarships for low-income students and loan-forgiveness programs for public servants barely make a dent in the lifelong debt millions of people carry in pursuit of the American Dream.
And even though President Joe Biden has extended the pause on student-loan payments until May 1, pressure is ramping up for him to cancel debt — an issue he prioritized in his presidential campaign but has been largely silent on since.
While student loans are the only form of debt Sorto has ever had, he said he sees no end in sight.
"My family will be okay, but I'm not going to be okay because that loan is under my name," Sorto said. "That's the price I was willing to pay for my family to be financially secure."
'I believed in my heart that college was the American Dream' After moving to Houston, one of Sorto's first memories is going with his family to a buffet-style restaurant. He said he was so in awe at the range of food options that he got seven trays just for himself. That's just one example of how his family had to adjust to the American way of life.
Sorto's father was not in his life growing up. For most of his early education, he took care of his younger sister while his mother worked at night. He also picked up side jobs to help support his mother, sister, and his grandma, who still lives in El Salvador.
Living in America to Sorto meant going to college — something no one in his family had done before — and although his mother did not see the importance in doing so, he said, "I believed in my heart that college was the American Dream."
But it's not a dream that works out for everyone: 72% of Latino students take out loans for their education, compared with 66% of white borrowers, according to the Student Borrower Protection Center. Twelve years after starting college, the median Latino borrower still owes 83% of their initial loan balance, compared with 65% for white borrowers.
Juan Antonio Sorto with his mother and grandmother. Juan Antonio Sorto with his mother and grandmother. Juan Antonio Sorto "College was viewed as a luxury," Sorto said. "And because my mother did not have an understanding of how much of a difference having a college degree would be to our livelihood, she was adamant on me pursuing a trade degree, a mechanical degree, an electrician degree or something that was a six-month or yearlong course."
Sorto ended up achieving his goal — he served as a probation officer for 12 years using his bachelor's degree. However, he joined the Great Resignation last year because the "mental exhaustion and stress" became too much. He's now pursuing a Ph.D. — a process he started while he was working as a probation officer — and a new job as a community developer in low-income neighborhoods. Even with his student debt load, he believes he accomplished his goals.
"I can at least feel happy to know that the chains within my family, within the generations that I can trace, have finally been broken where we're no longer going to be looked upon as uneducated, poor people," Sorto said.
lol well he's richer than TSINAH |
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Date: January 25th, 2022 10:51 AM Author: Contagious nursing home genital piercing *racks up $250k in debt*
*Quits job due to "mental exhaustion and stress"*
*Wants taxpayers to pay off his debt*
"They are a net gain for the economy!" |
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Date: January 25th, 2022 11:00 AM Author: mustard wonderful school kitty cat They do the jobs we don’t want to do, duh (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5016337&forum_id=2#43844020) |
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Date: January 25th, 2022 12:28 PM Author: avocado trip kitchen cuckoldry *boomer college admin cruises up on a harley, makes throat slashing gesture at u before roaring off* (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5016337&forum_id=2#43844489) |
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Date: January 25th, 2022 11:08 AM Author: cyan blood rage how much of that 250k was for "living expenses" and was remitted to his family in el salvador? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5016337&forum_id=2#43844058) |
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Date: January 25th, 2022 11:16 AM Author: stirring turdskin address (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5016337&forum_id=2#43844118) |
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Date: January 25th, 2022 11:33 AM Author: Motley useless brakes Third world muds aren’t prepared for Jewish trickery in America, dude stood no chance (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5016337&forum_id=2#43844212) |
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Date: January 25th, 2022 11:37 AM Author: Unhinged clown sounds like his mom knew what was up though
he just doubled and tripled down |
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Date: January 25th, 2022 1:21 PM Author: vivacious aquamarine orchestra pit police squad (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5016337&forum_id=2#43844746) |
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Date: January 25th, 2022 1:27 PM Author: Razzle Seedy Generalized Bond (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5016337&forum_id=2#43844766) |
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Date: January 25th, 2022 11:37 AM Author: Aggressive ocher den Get a $100k job with your PhD and minority status which is 80 after tax, 5 years of 50k payments and you're done with student loans forever. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5016337&forum_id=2#43844240) |
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Date: January 25th, 2022 1:06 PM Author: marvelous fishy rigpig hell Someone should tell this dumb immigrant the good news: you don't have to pay them back! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5016337&forum_id=2#43844682) |
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Date: January 25th, 2022 4:02 PM Author: beady-eyed hateful therapy He can have them forgiven if he goes back (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5016337&forum_id=2#43845690) |
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Date: January 25th, 2022 1:10 PM Author: Razzle-dazzle Magical Son Of Senegal there is one single poster we need back from XO history more than any other: HAHAURFUCKED (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5016337&forum_id=2#43844700) |
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Date: January 25th, 2022 1:12 PM Author: marvelous fishy rigpig hell Wonder what a doctorate in parole officering entails exactly (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5016337&forum_id=2#43844714) |
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Date: January 25th, 2022 1:15 PM Author: Unhinged clown obviously taking out loans for 'living expenses' and sending the money to el salvador (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5016337&forum_id=2#43844725) |
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Date: January 25th, 2022 1:16 PM Author: vivacious aquamarine orchestra pit police squad Then, to progress in his chosen career as a probation officer, he sought a Master's degree, and later a Ph.D.>>>
wtf |
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Date: January 25th, 2022 4:01 PM Author: Bistre place of business macaca Key word here is 'sought'. Article says later than he's still in grad school. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5016337&forum_id=2#43845686) |
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Date: January 25th, 2022 1:19 PM Author: vivacious aquamarine orchestra pit police squad the author and the editor up the chain thought this was a sympathetic sob story. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5016337&forum_id=2#43844737) |
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Date: January 25th, 2022 1:25 PM Author: Razzle Seedy Generalized Bond it's insane how out-of-touch these downwardly mobile upper-middle-class losers are about the student loan thing. they have to stretch really hard to find working-class kids who fucked up so spectacularly that they're in this position. nearly everyone who has $100k+ college debt is a loser who grew up UMC and got a useless degree that most proles have enough common sense to avoid. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5016337&forum_id=2#43844755) |
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Date: January 25th, 2022 6:39 PM Author: Saffron hyperactive field (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5016337&forum_id=2#43846535) |
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Date: January 25th, 2022 3:45 PM Author: Rough-skinned candlestick maker this is my first thought on almost every msm article lol (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5016337&forum_id=2#43845611) |
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Date: January 25th, 2022 10:57 PM Author: vivacious aquamarine orchestra pit police squad it's fucking bananas. in what planet do these mostly jewish media types from authors to the top of the masthead look at this insane wetback clusterfuck of a story and think it would be relatable to their business insider audience.
it points to a larger question: do they think that this IS indicative of their audience and that they can relate to it? that's impossible, right? they can't be that out of touch. |
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Date: January 25th, 2022 11:29 PM Author: Razzle Seedy Generalized Bond they are that out of touch. also they got worthless journalism degrees and are $250k in debt themselves. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5016337&forum_id=2#43848348) |
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Date: January 25th, 2022 11:31 PM Author: arousing dilemma background story insane wetback clusterfuck tp (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5016337&forum_id=2#43848358) |
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Date: January 25th, 2022 1:22 PM Author: Razzle Seedy Generalized Bond first-generation college student here, son of uneducated immigrants. went to an ivy, paid about $5k-$10k per year (nowadays i would go for free), graduated with $20k in debt that i paid off in my first year of working (my only big mistake, should've been a deadbeat like everyone else so i'd have it "forgiven" and plowed that money into the stock market instead) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5016337&forum_id=2#43844751) |
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Date: January 25th, 2022 1:30 PM Author: silver startled rehab lettuce Just a chill probation officer with a MPA pursuing a “phd” in urban planning.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/juanantoniosorto
Another HBCU grad saddled with debt! |
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Date: January 25th, 2022 1:32 PM Author: Unhinged clown he's not black though why is he going to a HBCU (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5016337&forum_id=2#43844786) |
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Date: January 25th, 2022 3:21 PM Author: Dun supple location Why would I do that? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5016337&forum_id=2#43845471) |
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Date: January 25th, 2022 3:48 PM Author: beady-eyed hateful therapy Lol so his mom wanted him to go to a trade school which would have been cr as fuck, but instead he got MY MASTERS in a low paying shit field, then voluntarily quit his job due to “mental exhaustion” WHILE getting a useless MY PHD, and the American taxpayer has to pick up this tab?
Just lol |
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Date: January 25th, 2022 3:49 PM Author: Rough-skinned candlestick maker pay up whitey (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5016337&forum_id=2#43845632) |
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Date: January 25th, 2022 3:56 PM Author: Bistre place of business macaca Holy shit. Every time you refresh the page, the number goes up. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5016337&forum_id=2#43845658) |
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Date: January 25th, 2022 3:57 PM Author: Aphrodisiac temple I literally had more than that and paid it all off. Yes I’m gay (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5016337&forum_id=2#43845665) |
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Date: January 25th, 2022 6:21 PM Author: Demanding Persian Fat Ankles no need, I can just look in a mirror (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5016337&forum_id=2#43846439) |
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Date: January 25th, 2022 10:59 PM Author: Internet-worthy ladyboy indian lodge Its easy to be lib when you are surrounded by culturally similar, educated, rational people. The problem with libs is that their ideas start to break down when you apply them to 3rd world browns and blacks. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5016337&forum_id=2#43848165) |
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Date: January 25th, 2022 11:07 PM Author: Razzmatazz scourge upon the earth He would have no debt, and make three times as much in career earnings if he had picked up a trade.
His plan is probably to just use student loans to pay for family back in Guatemala, and then once he has his degree, which no one can take away from him, he'll go back to Guatemala and stick all of us with the bill for his school deaths. |
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Date: January 25th, 2022 11:09 PM Author: beady-eyed hateful therapy If he goes back I guess we can accept it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5016337&forum_id=2#43848229) |
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Date: January 25th, 2022 11:29 PM Author: Razzle Seedy Generalized Bond "He would have no debt, and make three times as much in career earnings if he had picked up a trade."
this is wisdom that 99% of proles possess. |
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Date: January 25th, 2022 11:31 PM Author: Razzmatazz scourge upon the earth Not really. Most proles are too dumb or otherwise don't know enough to get into the real trades. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5016337&forum_id=2#43848357) |
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Date: January 25th, 2022 11:42 PM Author: Razzle Seedy Generalized Bond true, but they are still 10 times more likely to end up in a useful trade than to get $250k in debt for a feminist studies degree from Wesleyan or Oberlin (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5016337&forum_id=2#43848389) |