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[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Because they're young people who are also paying for a service. The debt has relatively little to do with the community model, you could absolutely build it around jobs or production in some fashion.

[–] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 3 points 3 weeks ago

Drag can confirm working on a remote minesite is like this, and you also get hella paid.

On the other hand, you have to work 12 hour shifts for weeks on end and it feels like a prison.

Fuck the mining industry, but they make walkable neighbourhoods because they know it's the most efficient.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works -3 points 3 weeks ago

The amount of student money that goes to professors is statistically insignificant. The rest goes to bullshit management that inevitably springs up when building a utopia.