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It is a matter of priorities. Cancelling debt allows our youth to have a better start in life. Alternatively, we could use that money to murder brown children

It is a matter of priorities. Cancelling debt allows our youth to have a better start in life. Alternatively, we could use that money to murder brown children overseas, as we usually do. Or, provide giveaways to the rich in the form of subsidies and preferential tax treatment for their unearned income which is always a favorite too. Really, we should go back to free higher education like the older boomers had available to them, and is still available in many civilized countries. But, the right and far-right controls policy in the US.

superduty 3y ago
Debt doesn’t get cancelled. It gets forcibly moved to those who had no part in creating it. I worked hard to save for my children’s schooling, as did they, taking part time bd full-time summer jobs. We chose the schools that did not require loans or that required minimal loans.
- sillystuff 3y ago
  People making low wages work hard (harder than the majority of folks on this site; e.g., there wasn't a single janitor at my last office that didn't have multiple jobs to make ends meet), but it is unlikely they will have excess funds to pay for an advanced degree without taking on substantial debt. Funding education via individual ability to pay vs. taxation perpetuates class divisions from birth-- a defacto caste system. It sounds like you and your children chose your parents sufficiently well that this is not a concern for you. Lucky you. I predict that the "Fuck you, I've got mine," attitude is, in large part, going to be what brings western society crashing down. And, I would argue that this attitude, and the policies that naturally flow from it, absolutely had a part in creating our fucked up system-- where people who did not choose their parents as well as you have to take on debt to get an education, in the first place.

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It is a matter of priorities. Cancelling debt allows our youth to have a better start in life. Alternatively, we could use that money to murder brown children

by sillystuff 3y ago

superduty 3y ago
Debt doesn’t get cancelled. It gets forcibly moved to those who had no part in creating it. I worked hard to save for my children’s schooling, as did they, taking part time bd full-time summer jobs. We chose the schools that did not require loans or that required minimal loans.
- sillystuff 3y ago
  People making low wages work hard (harder than the majority of folks on this site; e.g., there wasn't a single janitor at my last office that didn't have multiple jobs to make ends meet), but it is unlikely they will have excess funds to pay for an advanced degree without taking on substantial debt. Funding education via individual ability to pay vs. taxation perpetuates class divisions from birth-- a defacto caste system. It sounds like you and your children chose your parents sufficiently well that this is not a concern for you. Lucky you. I predict that the "Fuck you, I've got mine," attitude is, in large part, going to be what brings western society crashing down. And, I would argue that this attitude, and the policies that naturally flow from it, absolutely had a part in creating our fucked up system-- where people who did not choose their parents as well as you have to take on debt to get an education, in the first place.