The only way someone in a position of authority like this can steal $40M over the course of ten years is that those providing oversight are colluding or incompetent. Maybe both.

Iâ(TM)m sure thatâ(TM)s because the customer service reps are rewarded for each subscriber they retain. Im sure their bonus or continued employment is dependent on how many times they can talk someone out of cancelling service.

Are you implying that all old, white people from Nashville must be bigots?

Twirling, twirling toward freedom!

Yes, that one. The one that was allowed and then halted during President Obamaâ(TM)s two terms.

If you never want to receive a call on your carrier-assigned number, why not forward it to somewhere else?

Yes; "curly fry" bulb is another one I've heard. Yuk Yuk!

I wonder what the going rate on Amazon's Mechanical Turk is to watch a 15-20 minute video..

Life insurance on children is a scam. For 90% of us, a whole life or âoecash valueâ policy is also a bad deal.

What is the opinion that I should form based on my 30 seconds worth of media spoonfeeding today?

A) Pollution is bad, so we should throw money at researchers looking into it, as proven by this unbiased paper in the journal Frontiers of Environmental Science
B) Pollution used to be worse, so efforts in the last 25-50 years to reduce heavy metal use in plastics manufacturing are paying off. We should fund future research to ensure this trend continues,

-or-

C) Lake Geneva, surrounded by active civilization but "pristine" because there are mountains around it, has pollutants in it which will either tend to stay there and/or flow with the water to other places. We should probably fund some more research to know exactly how that works.

Well do tell, AC. We would love to hear details on this system...

If you're able to save $80k/year ($400k/5 years) and you are having trouble figuring out how to become a millionaire, it would be worth your time and money to seek out better financial advice.

This is very insightful. We do our young people such a disservice with ideas like "college is always worth it, no matter the cost" and "follow your dreams and get any degree you like".

Before allowing a teenager who has never balanced a checkbook or is able to handle the monthly commitment of renting an apartment to rack up 5- or 6-figure debt, we should be requiring some level of financial education, especially with a focus to cost/benefit analysis and budgeting.

If mom and dad can't afford $500k for college, we should not be handing blank checks out to junior to spend any way they see fit on college, especially given the current trends to force the public to pick up the tab on defaulted or forgiven student loans.

Right now, yes, most colleges don't cost $500,000. The article is projecting ahead 18 years. Saying they are a "good deal and worth the money" is highly subjective; some academic tracks might be worth the money, but many are not.

That's all well and good, for those who can afford to attend for the quest of knowledge. Before the GI bill got involved as the thin end of the wedge, college was for those whose families could afford it, and those who couldn't just didn't go to college. Only the rich could afford to pursue becoming a "well-rounded" individual with a liberal-arts approach.

I would argue exactly the opposite to your statement: that the only reason to attend college today is to qualify for a profession. If you can't see a real future career track as the potential payoff of your expected degree and your family is not independently wealthy, then attending college is a bad investment of your time and money.