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Why is it not?
by hamandcheese 4y ago
Why is it not?
- willcipriano 4y agoWhat sort of discount will the people who had their loans paid off offer for their services? As a taxpayer who didn't attend college I don't expect to pay full price for someone with a degree that I paid for.
- hamandcheese 4y agoBy that logic, you should be asking the Air Force for your own piece of an F35. Let me know how that goes.
- willcipriano 4y agoThe F35 is to be used to defend me, so yeah I do.
- ModernMech 4y agoAnd college-educated people funded by student loans engineered it.
- willcipriano 4y agoWe paid those engineers a salary. Some of that salary is due to the cost of self funding their education. Now that is publicly funded, I would expect a more european salary as opposed to a american one. To do otherwise feels like socializing the losses and privatizing the profits for a entire class of people who are generally better off than average.
- ModernMech 4y agoSounds reasonable.
- ozarker 4y agoI don’t know if it’s not but I question why the symptoms are being treated and not the root causes. Why is college so damn expensive, why are people getting useless degrees, etc…
- hamandcheese 4y agoI assume the answer is because it's much easier to hand out free money than it is to actually make structural changes. I don't think it's immoral to give out free money though.
- ozarker 4y agoIt’s not free money though.
- simonsarris 4y agoWhen party A loans party B, it is not very moral to demand that party C pay it. This is such an intuitive moral axiom that I would expect it to be pretty non-controversial across cultures and across time. If you believe the loans are predatory, some things one could do instead that might be considered moral: 1. Raid college endowments to pay down student debt 2. Allow bankruptcy for student debt 3. Allow refinancing at generous rates for student debt But mug the public?