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Comment by frockington | Hacker News Reader

You should get out and meet real people in America. It will probably change the first half of your post

Not quite sure how. I ended up working at Walmart after college and had to steal food since I couldn't afford rent,student loans, and medicine. Pretty much everyone of my coworkers was in the same boat with student loans being the only difference.

If you think it's not happening I suggest you put all your assets in an account you won't access and then try and live for a few years off a retail job

Life Pro Tip: Have better skills and be a better employee.

Life Pro Tip: have some empathy

Additionally: No shit, I taught myself programming and I'm an engineer now. Not everyone is capable of doing this, and the fact that I managed was down to just as much luck as it was skill and effort.

It also doesn't change the fact that we are taking money from society and giving it to companies

What did you major in? Was it poorly thought out from the beginning or did college admissions lie to you about job prospects?

I took an easy major to get a high gpa as I was trying to get into the military through ROTC and they care about your grade not your major. Then Obama got voted in on a platform of winding down the war, the ROTC detachments were told they could contract half as many people as they expected before the new president was even sworn in, and I got cut to graduate right after the recession with no real skills.

With the benefit of hindsight I could have done much better for myself,but I would not expect someone at that age to have the foresight to prepare for just how fucked your life plans can get

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-world_hypothesis

Don't go to college and then work at Walmart...

Not a lot of choices after the recession. There were people with Masters working there for a few months

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