How To Fix Student Debt (And Save The World)

I was once a student. And I was the type of student who did exactly what every other millennial did and listened to the older, wiser, boomers when it came to school and life plans. So, I got myself into a massive amount of student debt so that I could bargain my way to an extra eighty cents per hour and then spend the rest of my life so far wondering why those jerks decided to change the rules again and again.

Perfect system!

Look, I’m not going to sit here and act like I know some secret trick to getting out of this debt. If I did I would have done it myself a long time ago. I’m just doing the best I can with whatever rules are in place at the time and praying that they don’t change the rules so much that I can’t get out of this hole one day.

Yeah, it’s depressing.

But one thing I do think I’m a borderline expert on is knowing how this broken world could effectively solve this particular problem of mine. Not from a procedural standpoint or anything. But from a standpoint of knowing whether something would make me feel better.

So, in the face of yet another summer of hoping that our dear leaders don’t find that final nail to pound into the lid of my financial coffin quite yet, I’m going to share my ideas. With luck, some national leader will see this and think, “you know what, this article is the one that’s gonna turn me around!”