@djsumdog I think it will be a confluence of factors. Most people don't have student loans, but then again most people don't need to commute 100mi/day to get to their $14/hr job at $4/gal, and most people aren't paying $3,000/mo for a one bedroom with bedbugs in downtown, and so on, but most people absolutely are trapped in at least one of these completely life-destroying economic scenarios and I'm truly convinced that they're all going to be dismantled because they're all completely untenable. Like I said, there's no argument abstract and circuitous enough to get people to put up with a trash existence that yields no long-term improvement.

And yes. 15% of people getting caught in just one of these, in this case inescapable debt, is huge. Being $20,000 in debt for someone making $15hr while having to come up with rent and food and whatever else is life destroying. You seem to think that you can just tell 15% of the population to pound sand for life with no significant political consequences, and I don't mean to be dismissive here, but just no.

@georgetakei