Debt Is the New Chains: A Warning for Young People About Modern Financial Traps Imagine being forced to work for years just to pay off a debt. Not because you chose the job, but because you had no other way out. This was the life of an indentured servant—a person who signed a contract to work for several years without pay in exchange for something they needed, like passage to America back in the 1600s or 1700s. It sounded like a fair trade. But the truth was, once you signed that contract, your freedom was gone. You were stuck working...