"Student-loan debt is “actually worse than a bad mortgage,” he has said. “You have to get rid of the future you wanted, to pay off all the debt from the fancy school that was supposed to give you that future."
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Thiel’s quote reminds me of the Alchemist: The dreams we have as kids have so many obstacles, but by the time we have grown up enough to get rid of the obstacles, we have forgotten the dream.