in 100 years, what will be considered "stupid things people did back then"

[GagHalfrunt]

 

[SlitheryDee]

I'm not sure I would expect to ever pay a loan that size off at $118 per month. Also it seems these things are never as cut-and-dried as people make them seem. If you dig into them it usually goes something like:

"Oh well there was the second loan for $15,000 that later got consolidated with the first one, and there was the 8 years spread out over the total 23 years that I couldn't pay anything while interest was still accruing that they allowed me to miss while still being officially in good standing. I was still technically 'paying faithfully' according to their rules though".

Of course I don't know anything about her situation, but coincidentally leaving the inconvenient bits out is something people do a lot.

 

[Wuzup101]

If only people would stop getting degrees that didn't allow them to pay back their student loan debt. Generally when you see crap like that, they paid too much for the school/program you are in vs the salary the qualifications allow you to make. You almost never see someone with an engineering / science / technical degree complaining to that extent about student loan debt. It's always someone who has a degree in advanced basket weaving from a really expensive school. You know who doesn't have a ton of student loan debt? People that go to technical schools / programs and learn a trade... and they generally have several years of experience and $ earned by the time their peers get their advanced basket weaving degrees.

I'm 100% in favor of allowing student loans to be wiped out with bankruptcy. I'm also 100% in favor of these loans being provided by loan companies that evaluate the candidates based on their performance in grade school / HS. Loans would then be based on the degree / area of study that they intend to go into and thus the probability that they would be able to pay that loan back.

Society shouldn't have to absorb everyone making stupid choices. It's pretty easy to research the starting salary of someone with X degree, and while the market can change over the 4 years that a person is in school, the value of a chemical engineering degree isn't going to flip with a physiology degree ever. If you want a degree that qualifies you to stock shelves, you can pay for it yourself without a loan (rather than complain about it for decades). Society doesn't need any more "overqualified" checkout guys/girls.

/rant

 

[GagHalfrunt]

I'm not sure I would expect to ever pay a loan that size off at $118 per month. Also it seems these things are never as cut-and-dried as people make them seem. If you dig into them it usually goes something like:

"Oh well there was the second loan for $15,000 that later got consolidated with the first one, and there was the 8 years spread out over the total 23 years that I couldn't pay anything while interest was still accruing that they allowed me to miss while still being officially in good standing. I was still technically 'paying faithfully' according to their rules though".

Of course I don't know anything about her situation, but coincidentally leaving the inconvenient bits out is something people do a lot.

No, you missed the point.

I meant idiots going into debt for life getting a worthless degree that won't get you a job that earns enough money to pay back student loans. HOPEFULLY mankind will get smart enough to figure out the economics of college, the poor return on investment of most degrees and the fact that most colleges are machines to print money that have jacked up the price of an "education" far beyond the value of what they're selling and far far far far far far beyond the cost to provide the service. Even public school like state universities have multi-billion dollar endowments and keep getting richer and richer while the students keep getting more and more screwed. Schools with high endowments could be free, they could hire their teachers, provide room and board, tuition, books, etc free for all students, improve their facilities, stay on the cutting edge of research and equipment and STILL get richer and richer every year without a single donation and without a single cent collected from any student to use the school. But they keep jacking up prices and the suckers keep going into debt to support the greed of the universities. Eventually, that has to stop.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Some studies already indicate that information on demand is effecting memory. People stop memorizing things they previously would have. Anecdote, phone numbers. Having everyone in your inner monkey sphere's phone number memorized was commonplace. Now, I can ask even my close friends, son, or wife, my phone number and they do not know it. So if it is not trending or whatever catch phrase they use for viral dissemination of popular drek, they will have no idea what was happening in 2015.

Much like the video of the guy asking fellow students about important U.S. history, and the level of stupid of the responses. E.G. not knowing the most fundamental information on the American Revolutionary War or Civil War.

Outside of academics, history buffs and such may make observations about us. But judging by the average commenters on youtube and reddit, they will be more interested in Monday Night Rehabilitation than what we wore, what we worshiped, what technology we embraced. Because as someone commented above, Highly educated people do not procreate in the numbers the poor and ignorant do. Idiocracy here we come.

 

[foghorn67]

Those belt things that shake your abdomen fat at the gym
Penny farthings
Bustles

 

[Rudee]

The recent herd mentality fascination with bacon, as if it were some new invention.

 

[Muse]

Those belt things that shake your abdomen fat at the gym
Penny farthings
Bustles

What??? I have never seen those and I've been to many gyms thousands of times. I may have seen something like that in a movie or TV.

 

[Muse]

Some studies already indicate that information on demand is effecting memory. People stop memorizing things they previously would have. Anecdote, phone numbers. Having everyone in your inner monkey sphere's phone number memorized was commonplace. Now, I can ask even my close friends, son, or wife, my phone number and they do not know it. So if it is not trending or whatever catch phrase they use for viral dissemination of popular drek, they will have no idea what was happening in 2015.

Much like the video of the guy asking fellow students about important U.S. history, and the level of stupid of the responses. E.G. not knowing the most fundamental information on the American Revolutionary War or Civil War.

Outside of academics, history buffs and such may make observations about us. But judging by the average commenters on youtube and reddit, they will be more interested in Monday Night Rehabilitation than what we wore, what we worshiped, what technology we embraced. Because as someone commented above, Highly educated people do not procreate in the numbers the poor and ignorant do. Idiocracy here we come.

Yeah, it's a concern. I have a system that I've developed, programmed myself, that stores myriad info on my NAS. It allows me to stash info of various kinds, find it later. Tons of it sits there never to be seen again, probably, but it has served me very well over about 15 years and keeps growing daily. It does concern me, I wonder if it is or can rob me of the capacity to remember what I need to. But then there's the question of just what do I need to remember? How many phone numbers do I remember right now? I can maybe count them on one hand. In my data there are 360 records in my phone table. I have approximately as many tables!!! I wonder if this system will rot my brain instead of serving it.

The recent herd mentality fascination with bacon, as if it were some new invention.

Yeah, I've noticed that. I used to eat a lot but in recent years eat it rarely. I have about 1/4 lb in the freezer right now, have last touched it probably over a year ago. When it's time, I will buy a slab of hopefully good stuff at Costco. I used to eat 100x more bacon. I figure it's just unhealthy habit, I really focus on healthiness in my eating, but I allow indulgences, am not anal about it.

 

[JM Aggie08]

Those belt things that shake your abdomen fat at the gym
Penny farthings
Bustles

It is no longer 1962.

 

[gorcorps]

Those belt things that shake your abdomen fat at the gym
Penny farthings
Bustles

this is a guy that doesn't go to the gym

 

[TheSlamma]

posting on ATOT

Better than reddit.. wow the uselessness of that rag is unmatched even by the pet rock.

 

[IHateMyJob2004]

Spending $600 on an iPhone when you can get the same thing for $100 via Android.

Facebook. Everything Facebook.

 

[TheSlamma]

Spending $600 on an iPhone when you can get the same thing for $100 via Android.

If you spend $600 on an iPhone then that would be a "stupid thing people do RIGHT NOW"

I spent $199 on my first iPhone years ago (3GS) and thanks to promos that all the carriers offer I have not spent a DIME since. 4S, 5S and now 6 have all been paid for with trade-in.

 

[edro]

Spending $600 on an iPhone when you can get the same thing for $100 via Android.

Except you can't.

 

[zinfamous]

It is no longer 1962.

My grandparents had one in their bedroom at one time. This was c. 19whatever to ~1987 or so. Never could figure out what it was for, but it was clearly built in the 50s or 60s. We did like to strap in and turn it on. I didn't realize at the time, though, that is actually what you were supposed to do with it.


my contribution: Toilet Paper.

 

[IronWing]

my contribution: Toilet Paper.

That's what we've always thought of your contributions.

 

[zinfamous]

That's what we've always thought of your contributions.

touche.

 

[SMOGZINN]

Work, in the next 100 years we will have converted over to a post labor society and people of the day will wonder why we thought we needed to slave ourselves for most of our time to a company.

 

[Atomic Playboy]

my contribution: Toilet Paper.

Toilet paper will definitely become unnecessary when science invents the self-cleaning rabbit. It's like wiping your ass with cotton candy!

 

[jasonstevens584]

Wasting time posting on forums.

 

[foghorn67]

this is a guy that doesn't go to the gym

Wow, talking about flying over your head...
look at the other two things listed. How did you center on that?
And I hit the gym three times a week.

 

[cubby1223]

You know what? It's a good lesson for everyone to learn on any amount of borrowed money:

You are a moron if you never pay more than the minimum required monthly payment!

She went to college but didn't bother to learn any real skills while there. That's her fault more than the lender's fault.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Commuting hours to/from work every single day. Thankfully I don't have to do that but I know it's common in big cities. There's got to be a better way, like making working from home a standard.

 

[SparkyJJO]

Commuting hours to/from work every single day. Thankfully I don't have to do that but I know it's common in big cities. There's got to be a better way, like making working from home a standard.

Many jobs are hard to do from home (like mine). I don't see most jobs changing in that way.