Why Student Debt Is So Hard to Forgive

Americans are currently burdened with about 1.57 trillion dollars of student debt, and that number is climbing rapidly. For many, a lifetime of debt has become the painful reality of life in the United States. Why? What happened to make this country, and this economic system, so addicted to debt? Why Student Debt Is So Hard to Forgive – Second Thought SUBSCRIBE HERE: http://bit.ly/2nFsvTS New video every Friday! Check out The Deprogram: https://patreon.com/thedeprogram https://open.spotify.com/show/7tk1sTZDeE8p9lnxYLy4Ky?si=37e8a680d62b4df6 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-deprogram/id1596666465 Citations and Further Reading: Graeber https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/english/currentstudents/undergraduate/modules/fulllist/special/statesofdamage/syllabus201516/graeber-debt_the_first_5000_years.pdf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZIINXhGDcs https://alexdanco.com/2020/05/15/debt-the-first-5000-years/ https://johnathanbi.com/book-notes-summaries/debt https://longnow.org/ideas/02010/04/22/debt-the-first-five-thousand-years/ https://patternwhichconnects.com/blog/david-graeber-and-the-rewriting-of-monetary-history/ Lazzarato https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038514539207 http://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/30123/1/7885_OShaughnessy.pdf https://www.theoryculturesociety.org/blog/review-maurizio-lazzarato-governing-by-debt Others https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDZ7aQ_umhU https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/09/cant-pay-wont-pay-debt-abolition https://www.academia.edu/23770832/Debt_Underemployment_and_Capitalism_The_Rise_of_Twenty_First_Century_Serfdom https://doi.org/10.1177/016146812112300601 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/301270586_Debt_resistance_Beyond_or_within_capitalism https://books.google.com/books?id=swxjDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover https://doi.org/10.1177/2631309X20921567 https://marshallsteinbaum.org/assets/goldrick-rab-and-steinbaum-2020-what-is-the-problem-with-student-debt-jpam-point-.pdf Higher Ed. & Student Loans https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/what-biden-cant-do-on-student-debt-and-what-he-wont-do https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R58Si78N9i4 https://educationdata.org/student-loan-debt-by-generation https://educationdata.org/average-cost-of-college-by-year https://youtu.be/CKbopGWJM40?list=PLnQCwElJCNf9NHOqHicDrb03RX04nNl-h https://time.com/4276222/free-college/ https://theintercept.com/2021/08/05/student-debt-cancellation-nancy-pelosi/ https://newrepublic.com/article/159233/coronavirus-pandemic-collapse-college-universities https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/free-college-was-once-the-norm-all-over-america/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0CyBv18A5k https://thehill.com/opinion/education/560016-refuting-the-worst-excuses-against-student-debt-cancellation https://jacobinmag.com/2020/11/cancel-student-loan-debt-biden Follow and Support Second Thought! Twitter: https://twitter.com/_SecondThought Patreon: https://patreon.com/secondthought BuyMeACoffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/secondthought CashApp: $JTChapman Watch More Second Thought: Latest Uploads: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJR_Fq2hhYVEFS11cf1YzG27 Spaaaaaace!: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJQRpqT-hMTTFx8A6VVH3m6v What If...: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJRI7VrWf_-mT0z6lrN--Cvi Popular Videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJRx7ZaO9J04Kbob_u5baHxN About Second Thought: Second Thought is a channel devoted to education and analysis of current events from a Leftist perspective. Welcome! Business Email: secondthoughtchannel@gmail.com