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How normalized debt creates existential confusion

I am twenty-five and my student loans are more than my parents' first house cost and everyone keeps telling me this is normal but it does not feel normal to me.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

When systemic dysfunction becomes culturally normalized, individual intuitions about what constitutes reasonable burden become sources of self-doubt.

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