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When the ad-targeting is depressingly accurate:
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Holy shit that’s too bleak even for me
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This further increases my desire for a full sized guillotine.
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Parent Plus loans are often lost in the shuffle to their shinier cousin private student loan debt. Just as predatory, but perhaps a little less assumably naive of a target
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Neither here nor there—the AARP office building takes up half a city block in DC. They’re an entrenched machine for the status quo with a phalanx of lobbyists.
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Ouch. But also? I'm kind of glad they're aware this is a problem for their members? I suspect thinking, "Good job looking out, AARP," is itself a sign of decrepitude.
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This is so stealthy in its level of dystopia.
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Wow. Where the markers of a failing society show up are so much more varied than I might have guessed.
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Student loan pay off as part of your estate planning. 😬
Now watching the latest Last Week Tonight and the topic is student loans. Fitting indeed.
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I think they’re targeting parents stuck with Plus loans, but it really does have two audiences.
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Though their membership age starts at 50. That's Gen X, and I'm sure there are people that age who still have their own student debt. I'll have mine until I'm 55.
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*wince* yeah, that’s my home too
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They're targeting me. I'm 71, and overwhelmed by student loans. The only bright side is that the balance will be wiped out the instant I die.
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This could be reality for the majority of the members in 30 years.
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It's true now for many. AARP is only 50+ and student loans have a way of just never going away.
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Mine won’t be paid off by 50. 😞
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I'm 58...gonna be paying for awhile yet
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Such BS. The lenders made more than a generous profit. Student loan forgiveness needs to happen. I guess they are too busy giving handouts to multi billionaires.
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No kidding. Well-targeted ads creep me out. I end up spending a coupe of hours figuring out how much personal information leaked, even when it turns out to have been just a depressingly good guess most of the time.
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That’s dark. Accurate, but dark. *This* is the bad place.
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I'm still appalled from watching John Oliver last night.
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That's the problem. You don't want lower payments, you want lower interest accumulation.
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Maybe my brain is poisoned now but looks like an AI generated image too? Bizarrely placed cup in foreground, gigantic laptop screen, cyberpunk chair with buttons on the front next to her
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this one seems to be real! by marko geber, licensed to getty images and a few other stock photo places. the large objects are a matter of perspective and i think the chair with “buttons” is just transparent plastic in front of a dresser cabinet with drawers in the background