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Column: Where are the shows about regular people fighting back?

  • The novel 'The Payback' features three millennial retail workers facing struggles due to large student loans and the Debt Police, a new law enforcement agency acting like loan sharks.
  • One character notes, 'thousands of us limping to our cars and throwing up blood, all because we’d forgotten to be born rich.'
  • The characters in 'The Payback' believe they are following societal rules to improve their lives, yet they struggle with their circumstances.
  • The show 'Andor' portrays everyday people uniting to challenge a larger oppression, emphasizing small acts of resistance against the Empire.
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Column: Where are the shows about regular people fighting back?

In the sardonic heist novel “The Payback,” out this month, three millennial retail workers — including a former computer hacker — are in dire straits thanks to their enormous student loans and a newly established law enforcement agency called the Debt Police, who operate like loan shark henchmen. Which is why “thousands of us (are) limping to our cars and throwing up blood, all because we’d forgotten to be born rich,” is how one of them sums up …

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The Sun (Lowell) broke the news in Lowell, United States on Tuesday, July 15, 2025.
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