I'm Irish. The state paid me to go to university, and I've paid it back many times over in taxes.

Whenever I hear about the cost of degrees in the US I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.

It doesn't make sense, it's entirely inhumane and predatory to loan that kind of money to a teenager, and there's no way I would ever have gotten a degree if I lived there.

I tried being in debt once, for a far more modest amount than a US degree, and it weighed on my subconscious the entire time.