Were these people forced to take loans? Did someone hold a gun to their head and force them?
Based on what I'm reading on her sign she must have paid with a 30% interest credit card... and then decided not to pay.
All but. Have you missed decades of relentless propaganda being drilled into young people that if they didn’t get a college degree they’d be a failure in life?
They did what people in authority told them were the right things to do, and got screwed every which way for it. This didn’t come out of a vacuum.