Indentured servants weren't allowed to wind up unemployed or to pick a less lucrative career than the person they were indentured to might prefer.

> How is this different from indentured servitude?

If the state raised a 2% income tax on everyone to pay for free college education, instead of a 3% income tax on students getting a free college education, would that also be indentured servitude? Are all taxpayers indentured servants of the state?

this is exactly what I think. It's bad enough that college loans are non-dischargeable (and therefore probably in violation of the 14th amendment).

Now, the wage garnishment were voluntarily terminatable, that's another story.

For a free trip to the colonies, you paid with all of your output for the next 20 years(or longer) - not just 3%.

Well, how is the current system different from indentured servitude? You can't discharge school loans in bankruptcy, so...