/lit/ - Literature

>>17330789
Sure but I'm already in my mid-twenties. Working my ass off and jumping through hoops just so I can be a thirty year old with 40 grand in debt and a piece of paper the middle class expects you to have received by 21 hardly seems worth it. In my country just applying to university after a certain age bars you from entrance scholarships and many academic programs.

Alexis de Tocqueville has an interesting quote on this point,
>“Society will develop a new kind of servitude which covers the surface of society with a network of complicated rules, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate. It does not tyrannise but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd.”
It seems that we have largely reached this point these days. At least I can live in a trailer park and remain financially independent, which isn't something that can be said for most 'respectable' career paths