The article reads more like: “My parents have 80k student loan and I’m fine with it”

it is easy to buy time and resume, travel, meet friends and be happy about it, as long as you have no true worries about the debt and cash. But that doesn’t work for vast majority of people.

(written from a perspective of ex-student that went to study in a foreign country with 2000$ in his pocket, whose parents live in a poor country and could not finance his studies)