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Slate Articles ([info]slate) wrote,
@ 2015-06-09 17:11:00

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There Is No Perfect Personal Finance Victim

You can’t say Lee Siegel wasn’t asking for it. A longtime cultural and literary critic, Siegel authored an opinion piece in the New York Times on Sunday in which he expressed pride in defaulting on student loans decades ago. Faced with debt he felt he could not repay without changing professions, the writer walked away from his obligations. It was, he writes, “the only way I could survive without wasting my life in a job that had nothing to do with my particular usefulness to society.”



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