November 17, 2020, 2:40 pm
Carol Roth, described as an “American television personality, bestselling author, entrepreneur, radio host, and investor” by Wikipedia, has earned her place among the list of rich people offering unhelpful advice to people in debt. With Joe Biden poised to become the next president and having promised student debt relief, Roth and privileged people like her are jumping at the opportunity to help the poor cancel their own debts with bootstraps or whatever.
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Among Roth’s list of helpful hints everyone in the universe has already heard and/or thought of themselves includes gems like “get another job” and “stop spending money.”
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We assume by “buy your own alcohol” she means buy it at a store rather than at a bar? Either that, or there’s some rich person way to buy alcohol you already own, or maybe the rich have people go out and buy their alcohol for them. We may never know.
As of the last count, U.S. residents currently hold a collective $1.6 trillion in student loan debt, and the problem has been getting steadily worse for decades. Somehow, though, people like Roth who lucked into wealth still cannot fathom the idea that if things like “work until you collapse” and “stop buying anything that brings you joy” could work, it would have already.
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As is always the case when another unfortunate tweet like this gets noticed by a lot of people, all 42 million student debt holders have jumped at the chance to release some of their frustration onto Roth and her bad ideas.
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*First Published: November 17, 2020, 2:40 pm
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