An institutionalized, generational debt [indistinguishable from slavery] like that? Wars have been fought for less, and [IMO] it seems like justification for one now.
There was a bible-verse that was really striking that I read a while ago, about parents stealing from children and how it was really wrong. Not to mention that America hasn't been about selling one's descendants into slavery (America was always individualistic, until very recently).
They sold our souls to the company store.