What a nasty little turd, this Lee Siegel. A self-important “writer” who thinks that others should pay for his bad choices and that grand theft is an acceptable mechanism to that end.
I paid off my student loans. I did it early. But it took a lot, and I do mean a LOT, of sacrifice on many levels. I never considered default, because I signed the paperwork and was taught that if you make a debt you pay it.
This whole article has an undercurrent of guilt in it, no matter how me tries to rationalize it away.
me=he