I have nothing but admiration for the writers hard work, and I (as a Bernie fan) want to strongly object to it. I think my objections and his mirror the political divide in this country - the left wants a more compassionate world, the right sees the desire for redistribution as lazy people wanting to take from the people who&#x27;ve actually earned. While there&#x27;s a bit of truth in both viewpoints, I&#x27;d ask him to consider :<p>- because he had to go through this experience, should everybody? would it be better if we had, say, government-paid college? more opportunity? maybe he could have studied something he wanted?<p>- do we really want a society where you pretty much have to choose between entrepreneurship or starvation? No poets? physicist? Teachers?<p>- college is far less affordable now then when he or I went to school (didn&#x27;t read the cite at the end, sorry, but the fact is there regardless of who&#x27;s responsible)<p>- Our society has unquestionably become more economically savage in the last few decades. Out of work? good luck on your health care, sucker. Do we really want a society where everybody has to give up everything to strive to be wealthy because that&#x27;s the only safe harbor?