{"items": [{"author": "David Chudzicki", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/106120852580068301475", "anchor": "gp-1374252858471", "service": "gp", "text": "I didn't take on new debt in graduate school, but I certainly didn't pay off college debt or try to build up savings. I could have (I think), but rejected the idea quickly.", "timestamp": 1374252858}, {"author": "Josh", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/118273920476267337216", "anchor": "gp-1374294713881", "service": "gp", "text": "I had a friend who espoused a similar ish idea: That he should spend money and rack up debt, especially on exotic and luxurious travel, while he was young enough to enjoy it; and then spend the rest of his life working to pay it off. (And if he didn't manage to pay it off before he died, enh.) I don't know to what extent he actually practiced this.", "timestamp": 1374294713}]}