Why did you even go to college?

"Why did you even go to college?" is a question that I have been asked on more than one occasion, including by my self.

I could make $10 an hour hocking crap to the capitalist-driven general public, but I want to "help people," so I went to college.  Now, I owe well more than my life is worth to the U.S. government, Sallie Mae, and credit card companies.  Yet, my college degree is only god for $10 an hour, entry-level work.

To be clear, a salary is not a concern for buying a house or investing but rather to sustain my life and pay off Discover card, who calls me at least fourteen times a day, and Sallie Mae, who clearly didn't get the memo after they told me (repeatedly) that there was "nothing they could do to work with my situation."  If I even planned to pay off my debt, sustain a family, move up in the social ranks, and invest in retirement, I would need to start at $30 an hour.  I would be perfectly willing to work my way up the financial ladder, but at my age and with my debt, I don't see how that could be fiscally possible.  I say this because I have already been working my way up the ladder for the past decade, and it caps for me at $10 an hour apparently.

Wouldn't it be amazing if the U.S. was one of those "backwards" countries that provides free education?  Or, better yet, one that pays you to learn a trade that provides a social service (similar to Germany)?

Move to America where you can make your own future! 

Unless, of course, you were raised in an Americanesque society that requires you to owe your life, as well as first of kin, just to even play Career Person.

It's amazing that people so intensely and desparetly fight off immigrants that make-up the grunting back-bone of American society, but they don't expend that same energy fighting to change a system that allows people of more progressive (in my opinion) societies to enter into our workforce with an advantage.  People say that immigrants are "stealing our jobs," but the fact of the matter is, our capitalist system, and thus our own society, is enthusiastically giving them away!  The capitalist system is flawed in that it charges us outside of our means to operate within it.  Yet, rather than change it to help us, Americans fight the "commies" and "socialists" and "immigrants" and "Change."

Wake up America!  Capitalism has failed us.  Our government has failed us.  It's time for some serious reform.