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Why should poor fast food workers pay student loans for privileged liberal arts majors?

krapp 4y ago
> Why should poor fast food workers pay student loans for privileged liberal arts majors? Weird anti liberal-arts slander aside, the vast majority of people unable to pay off their student loans - most of whom have been trying to do so - are far closer to the former implied end of the socioeconomic spectrum than the latter. Not that it actually matters - your question is disingenuous to begin with.
- ufhfnfjvv 4y ago
  The average salary of a liberal arts major is over $50,000. That's $20,000 higher than a high school graduate. Why should the latter pay for the former?
  - feet 4y ago
    All of this nonsense is a distraction to prevent people from noticing that the capital holding class is exploiting all workers for their labor whether they have degrees or not. College could be provided for citizens for free but we don't have that because the capital owning class has workers all pointing fingers at each other squabbling over pennies
dragonwriter 4y ago
> Why should poor fast food workers pay student loans for privileged liberal arts majors? Poor fast food workers almost certainly pay zero-to-negative net income tax (negative potential becaue of EITC), so…they wouldn’t pay forgiveness for anyone.
- ufhfnfjvv 4y ago
  Fast food workers aren't affected by inflation?
  - dragonwriter 4y ago
    > Fast food workers aren’t affected by inflation? In a world where the Fed both had the capacity and the desire to selectively exclude the effects of particular fiscal actions from its monetary policy calculations and, specifically, to do so for student loan forgiveness, this might actually be a sensible question.
hotpotamus 4y ago
How much of a poor fast food worker's pay do you imagine is being withheld in taxes to pay off student loans?
- ufhfnfjvv 4y ago
  What do you imagine happens when money is printed?
  - hotpotamus 4y ago
    In my experience approaching 4 decades, the answer is that the rich get more of it. The particular question about money doesn't seem to matter much, the answer is the same.

> Why should poor fast food workers pay student loans for privileged liberal arts majors? Weird anti liberal-arts slander aside, the vast majority of people unable to pay off their student loans - most of whom have been trying to do so - are far closer to the former implied end of the socioeconomic spectrum than the latter. Not that it actually matters - your question is disingenuous to begin with.

ufhfnfjvv 4y ago
The average salary of a liberal arts major is over $50,000. That's $20,000 higher than a high school graduate. Why should the latter pay for the former?
- feet 4y ago
  All of this nonsense is a distraction to prevent people from noticing that the capital holding class is exploiting all workers for their labor whether they have degrees or not. College could be provided for citizens for free but we don't have that because the capital owning class has workers all pointing fingers at each other squabbling over pennies

dragonwriter 4y ago

> Why should poor fast food workers pay student loans for privileged liberal arts majors? Poor fast food workers almost certainly pay zero-to-negative net income tax (negative potential becaue of EITC), so…they wouldn’t pay forgiveness for anyone.

ufhfnfjvv 4y ago
Fast food workers aren't affected by inflation?
- dragonwriter 4y ago
  > Fast food workers aren’t affected by inflation? In a world where the Fed both had the capacity and the desire to selectively exclude the effects of particular fiscal actions from its monetary policy calculations and, specifically, to do so for student loan forgiveness, this might actually be a sensible question.

hotpotamus 4y ago

How much of a poor fast food worker's pay do you imagine is being withheld in taxes to pay off student loans?

ufhfnfjvv 4y ago
What do you imagine happens when money is printed?
- hotpotamus 4y ago
  In my experience approaching 4 decades, the answer is that the rich get more of it. The particular question about money doesn't seem to matter much, the answer is the same.