I'm not taking ToolAss's position by any means, but I just wanted to point out that he's generalizing and pooping on an otherwise valid issue.
My parents were poor and couldn't afford to send me to community college, much less a private university. I joined the Marine Corps not because I wanted college money, but because I wanted a way out of the life I certainly would have been stuck in if I stayed in the po-dunk hamlet in which I was born. As a matter of fact (and feel free to rip on me for this), I turned down the GI Bill when I was filling out paperwork at Parris Island because I was sure I wouldn't be goin' to no college. Whether it was admin incompetence or just someone doing me a favor, my denial of the GI Bill was overlooked and I ended up paying into it anyway.
So, you can imagine my disgust when I was working a retail job to help my girlfriend finish her degree and I ended up meeting people who came from affluent backgrounds with parents who paid for all their housing and education and blew it because they chose to sit around and smoke pot and party all the time.
Yeah, some kids are generally douchebags. They take their sweet time, change their majors every semester, and wipe their asses with their parents' love and charity. Meanwhile, there's a basically good kid standing behind the counter at Subway, dreaming of the day he can pursue a better life.
Maybe that's what our little buddy was trying to convey. It's a shame he was a jackhole about it, especially to people I personally admire. But there was a peanut-sized grain of truth in the mass of turds that came out of that boy's mouth.
How we liking them visuals?