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rconti 11 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: They're Killing the Humanities on Purpose

Which part do you object to more? The policy choice to have the entire cost borne by the student (in the US, specifically)?

Or "society" encouraging people to study the humanities?

djohnston 11 months ago [–]

100% on the non-dischargeable debt. I appreciate the humanities and their importance, but encouraging kids to take out loans to study them, with no risk to the lender, is obscene.

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