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>stupid people
the earlier you get someone into crippling debt, the earlier you can profit off of their existence
>smart people
grants/academic scholarships make it so that they/their parents don't even have to take out a loan most of the time and it multiplies their starting salaries by about 1.5x
>really smart people (me)
"Hi I went to Princeton/MIT/Harvard/Stanford/Yale"
"Cool you're hired, here's a $150k base pay role with 4 hours of real work per week, also in a few years you'll get promoted to a $300k role"