On: The Absurdity of Student Loan Debt

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By reading strictly your sentence, I sense a definition of useful as "the way to repay a big debt".

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If you’re taking out a loan to pay for the degree, you’d better believe that’s the definition.

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Gives you skills people will pay you more for than you paid to acquire them.

Learning for the sake of learning is great, but not if it costs more money than you have.