Sounds Like a Good Deal to Me

Half of all millennials would be willing to give up their right to vote if their student loans were paid off?

This seems like one of the dumber questions ever asked in a poll in recent memory, but the results are rather remarkable. (Well… remarkable as in a totally dismal, dystopian future sort of way.) The New York Post is reporting on a new survey conducted by LendEDU (so consider the source) which indicates that a shocking number of Americans would be willing to trade away their right to vote for the rest of their lives. And some of them were willing to give that right up pretty cheaply.

More than a third of surveyed American workers (34.98 percent) say they would give up their right to vote in all elections for life in exchange for an immediate pay increase, according to a new LendEDU survey released Tuesday. This backs a recent Credible report that found half of millennials said they would give up their right to vote if it would mean their student loan debts were forgiven.
LendEDU proposed 16 scenarios to 1,238 employed Americans where giving up something would result in an instant 10 percent annual bump in salary. And people will go to some extreme lengths for that extra cash, such as sacrificing their health care and putting in some serious overtime, the survey found.

Half of all millennials would be willing to give up their right to vote if their student loans were paid off? Um… can we get that in writing? Because I’m normally something of a hawk for people taking responsibility for their debt choices, but if they think so little of their right to vote, perhaps they could find better things to do on election day anyway.

Should we start a GoFundMe campaign? We could offer to sell it back to them for double later.