#economic dependency

"exploiters come into the ghetto from outside, bleed it dry, and leave it economically dependent on the larger society. As with the missionaries, these exploiters frequently come as the "friend of the Negro," pretending to offer worthwhile goods and services, when their basic motivation is personal profit and their basic impact is the maintenance of racism. Many of the social welfare agencies--public and private--frequently pretend to offer "uplift" services; in reality, they end up creating a system which dehumanizes the individual & perpetuates his dependency... The economic relationship of America's black community ties to the larger society also reflects their colonial status. The political power exercised over those communities goes hand in glove with the economic deprivation experienced by the black citizens." Kwame Ture aka Stokely Carmichael & Charles V Hamilton in Black Power: the politics of liberation 1992, 16-17. 

Declarations of Undependence by Calvin Helin (THE ECONOMIC DEPENDENCY TRAP) http://calvinhelin.com http://spiritorca.com

They should mail you balloons whenever you make a student loan payment, and/or a button. It would make economic slavery seem so much less daunting. And plus, with all the buttons, you could open up a button store and sell the buttons to those who didn't pay their loans, thus perpetuating their debt, but decreasing yours. Provided the market for student loan payment buttons is as booming as statistics show...