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🗓️ 2 July 2019
⏱️ 43 minutes
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0:00.0 | Do you even know how much sperm costs? |
0:03.2 | That was Mia, our video director. |
0:05.8 | And that ejaculation wasn't random. |
0:10.6 | It was her very substantive response to a question I asked about half a dozen of my coworkers here at Bernie HQ. |
0:18.0 | That question was this. |
0:20.0 | What would you do if you didn't have student debt? |
0:23.6 | I'm a queer woman, you know, and I'm nearing my early 30s. |
0:27.9 | I would like to plan for a family, and one of the largest and most substantial considerations |
0:34.2 | when you are with a female partner |
0:36.5 | is how to get that going. |
0:38.5 | Without student debt, I could start saying to myself, |
0:41.0 | okay, this is what I want to do in the next five years of my life. |
0:45.5 | I know that the numbers would add up comfortably for me to afford not only potential in vitro, potential, you know, fertility clinic visits, but |
0:58.2 | knowing that my lifestyle requires those added measures for me to start a family. |
1:05.0 | Without student debt that's it's a no-brainer for me. |
1:08.0 | The answers were varied but uniformly confident. |
1:12.0 | This generation, millennials, |
1:14.6 | though characterized as frivolous by a media class |
1:17.5 | dominated by boomers and Genexers, |
1:20.1 | only wanted the very basics. a family, a home, an opportunity to get more education. |
1:28.0 | I have ambitions to pursue a career in public service, but I think that given the fact that you know |
1:33.7 | starting salaries to work on Capitol Hill or $30,000 a year etc I don't think that |
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