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   gnutelephony (gnutelephony@floss.social)'s status on Monday, 30-Oct-2023 16:47:29 JST gnutelephony

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   • Curtis "Ovid" Poe (he/him)

   @ovid medical debt similarly impoverishes the disabled and destroys the very idea of retirement.

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     Curtis "Ovid" Poe (he/him) (ovid@fosstodon.org)'s status on Monday, 30-Oct-2023 16:47:30 JST Curtis "Ovid" Poe (he/him)

     Having an unavoidable mountain of college debt that you can't discharge is the 21st century version of indentured servitude.

     More and more Americans are fleeing the US to escape crushing student debt:

     https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/26/he-moved-to-a-jungle-in-india-to-escape-his-student-debt--and-hes-not-alone-.html

     (The article is over four years old, but I wonder where these people are now?)