Americans are currently burdened with about 1.57 trillion dollars of student debt, and that number is climbing rapidly. For many, a lifetime of debt has become the painful reality of life in the United States. Why? What happened to make this country, and this economic system, so addicted to debt?

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Citations and Further Reading:

Graeber
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/english/currentstudents/undergraduate/modules/fulllist/special/statesofdamage/syllabus201516/graeber-debt_the_first_5000_years.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZIINXhGDcs
https://alexdanco.com/2020/05/15/debt-the-first-5000-years/
https://johnathanbi.com/book-notes-summaries/debt
https://longnow.org/ideas/02010/04/22/debt-the-first-five-thousand-years/
https://patternwhichconnects.com/blog/david-graeber-and-the-rewriting-of-monetary-history/

Lazzarato
https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038514539207
http://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/30123/1/7885_OShaughnessy.pdf
https://www.theoryculturesociety.org/blog/review-maurizio-lazzarato-governing-by-debt

Others
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDZ7aQ_umhU
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/09/cant-pay-wont-pay-debt-abolition
https://www.academia.edu/23770832/Debt_Underemployment_and_Capitalism_The_Rise_of_Twenty_First_Century_Serfdom
https://doi.org/10.1177/016146812112300601 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/301270586_Debt_resistance_Beyond_or_within_capitalism
https://books.google.com/books?id=swxjDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover
https://doi.org/10.1177/2631309X20921567
https://marshallsteinbaum.org/assets/goldrick-rab-and-steinbaum-2020-what-is-the-problem-with-student-debt-jpam-point-.pdf

Higher Ed. & Student Loans
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/what-biden-cant-do-on-student-debt-and-what-he-wont-do
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R58Si78N9i4
https://educationdata.org/student-loan-debt-by-generation
https://educationdata.org/average-cost-of-college-by-year
https://youtu.be/CKbopGWJM40?list=PLnQCwElJCNf9NHOqHicDrb03RX04nNl-h
https://time.com/4276222/free-college/
https://theintercept.com/2021/08/05/student-debt-cancellation-nancy-pelosi/
https://newrepublic.com/article/159233/coronavirus-pandemic-collapse-college-universities
https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/free-college-was-once-the-norm-all-over-america/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0CyBv18A5k
https://thehill.com/opinion/education/560016-refuting-the-worst-excuses-against-student-debt-cancellation
https://jacobinmag.com/2020/11/cancel-student-loan-debt-biden

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