The original argument was that education debt should not be dischargable insofar as it allows a person to increase their earnings and cannot be “stripped away”

The original argument was that education debt should not be dischargable insofar as it allows a person to increase their earnings and cannot be “stripped away” from them if and when they enter into bankruptcy. At a first glance, that’s almost reasonable (although terrifyingly vindictive and materialistic) but on closer consideration it’s not at all consistent with many other paid-for advantages (such as medical care, which though inordinately expensive, certainly does, by virtue of keeping a person alive and functional in the workplace, enhance their future earnings). Non-dischargable debt thrust upon youngsters and carried by them like the burden of original sin for the rest of their lives must come to an end. (I’m European, fortunately I have never had this problem.)