Many people aren't "paying for it" today already - can we judge if they're taking it more or less lightly than they otherwise would have?
Given that we have 20 year olds taking on tens of thousands of dollars in debt, when I don't really think most of them have any perspective at all to judge the seriousness of that, I'm not sure we can say that everyone going to college today is 'paying for it'. We might say that many of them are paying for it (in many senses of the phrase) for years/decades to come.
Given that we have 20 year olds taking on tens of thousands of dollars in debt, when I don't really think most of them have any perspective at all to judge the seriousness of that, I'm not sure we can say that everyone going to college today is 'paying for it'. We might say that many of them are paying for it (in many senses of the phrase) for years/decades to come.