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In reply to the discussion: Blanket student loan forgiveness is redistributing wealth upward [View all]Scrivener7
(52,312 posts)that I could have followed happily. When I listed those paths that I would love to pursue, Librarian came off the list because, in the cost/benefit analysis, it was simply too expensive.
I chose a different degree that I loved, and that path turned out to be much more joyful and fulfilling than anything else I could have done.
So you can save your superior judgment that "there's something very wrong" with my choices.
No one owed either of us our Master's degrees. If you chose to pursue a degree for which you knew the cost would prevent you from living the way you want to - and if you did not know that, why didn't you? - your decision was not righteous. It was certainly not creative. And demanding that everyone else now should pay for it is entitled.