if all students everywhere simutaneously rejected student laons, tuition would come down.

his debt is not that unusual. law school is 40 plus k a year x 3 = 120 k, plus living expenses, 200k, plus undergrade, say 100 k, = 300k, then he got dinged with collection fees, 300k in student loans is not some sort of bizarre weird number. that’s what things cost nowadays.

i don’t think he was ‘gaming the system’, i think it’s the same “things will work out” mindset home borrowers” have; eduation always pays off, it’ll wash with inflation, etc.