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"People have suffered, therefore we must continue to make people suffer so the previous suffering wasn't for nothing." You can say I'm straw-maning, but it's h
by Alekhine 5y ago
"People have suffered, therefore we must continue to make people suffer so the previous suffering wasn't for nothing."
You can say I'm straw-maning, but it's hard to see your argument as anything else.
- JamesBarney 5y agoHere is another way to phrase it. Should we tax the poor(people who didn't get a college degree) to pay off the debts of the middle class and upper middle class? Or if we're going to hand out large sums of money why should the front of the line be college educated individuals who went to private colleges?
- Alekhine 5y agoOk, fair points. My main concern is really just to lower college tuition. I don't know how people keep putting up with it, but we are essentially enslaving an entire generation with debt as soon as they actually gain some agency. Maybe instead of paying the debts with tax dollars, we force universities to eat the cost, or at least some of it? If you could declare bankruptcy on your college debt, it might make universities think twice about charging such high tuition. Or it would just make them selective, I don't know.