2021-04-11

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The Ponzi Career

"The Lambda School Income Share Agreement (ISA) is a form of deferred tuition under which you agree to pay 17% of your post-Lambda School salary for 24 months, but only once you're making more than $50,000 per year. The ISA is capped at $30,000, so you'll never pay more than that for any reason. And if you don't get hired? You never pay."

Isn't this the same as traditional student debt or, worse, indentured servitude? Not really. As Meratas, a software provider that helps organizations issue and manage ISAs, explains, ISAs do not accrue interest, have no principal balance, and do not trigger a penalty if the amount that students end up repaying is lower than the original cost of their studies.
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