You’re not the problem.

Imagine for a moment if the world wasn’t as rigged as it is, and you were able to get you studying in without having to sell all of your time to pay for it.

It makes me sad to think of what we lost to your needing to pay a fortune to learn how to better solve problems rather than have that training be free while you’re learning, and only pay for it once you create value for others (and can easily bear the cost). You may have even found better problems to solve if you were able to live your life rather than sell every spare second of your time.

To me, your story doesn’t look terribly different than someone who takes a huge life insurance policy on themselves and has themselves murdered. In both instances, you sacrifice a ton of life that you can’t get back for money.

I know it’s terribly unfashionable to use the State to solve problems, but many aren’t content to continue to let these problems fester while we have such a powerful (if dangerous) tool at our disposal. The perverse faith that the State can only make things worse doesn’t make the State or society any better, it in fact only excuses bad State actors. “That’s Government for you, what did you expect?”

Remember, we put a man on the damn Moon with State power, we can make the economic game a little less rigged so you and people like you can solve more and better problems.

Sorry for the rant, thanks for reading!