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I haven’t been working for nearly as long - coming up on 7 years here. I enjoy going into the office because I enjoy spending time with my team - they’re all re

by g-nair 2y ago

I haven’t been working for nearly as long - coming up on 7 years here. I enjoy going into the office because I enjoy spending time with my team - they’re all really cool! However, I find a good analogy for RTO to be the case of student loan forgiveness. Just because one individual had to pay their own tuition or student loans off, doesn’t mean that individual should wish that all future students share the same fate. Just because you worked in an office for 30 years and it was manageable, or just because I like coming in for social reasons, need not result in our scorn for those who thrive by not coming into an office.

milesrout 2y ago
Student loan forgiveness is using taxpayer money to pay off the loans of a huge number of people with good jobs and plenty of money. You chose to borrow that money. Borrow. It wasn't a gift. The idea that people are only against student loan forgiveness because they paid off their own loans and think others should share in their suffering or something is absurd. It is nothing to do with that at all. It is because you are stealing to give money to people that do not need it. If talk of student loan forgiveness were limited to people with very limited incomes with no hope of ever paying off their loans, it would be one thing. But it is in reality about a massive transfer of wealth to people with degrees: people with plenty of earning capacity already. >Just because you worked in an office for 30 years and it was manageable, or just because I like coming in for social reasons, need not result in our scorn for those who thrive by not coming into an office. The persom you replied to didn't say RTO was good because he worked in the office for 30 years. He said he had limited sympathy for that reason. I am sure his reason for imploring his team to RTO is that he recognises that people do two thirds of fuck all at home.
- scarface_74 2y ago
  I’m 50 and he sounds like the prototypical boomer. It’s like the old people who can’t fathom why new grads would spend months “grinding leetCode” to make $170K+ right out of college when the boomer bought their first house in 2002 for $170k (like I did).
- g-nair 2y ago
  You made plenty of points that I don’t necessarily agree with, but the one I’d love to see data for is that the people’s who’s loans are being forgiven don’t “need” that money!

by g-nair 2y ago

milesrout 2y ago

Student loan forgiveness is using taxpayer money to pay off the loans of a huge number of people with good jobs and plenty of money. You chose to borrow that money. Borrow. It wasn't a gift. The idea that people are only against student loan forgiveness because they paid off their own loans and think others should share in their suffering or something is absurd. It is nothing to do with that at all. It is because you are stealing to give money to people that do not need it. If talk of student loan forgiveness were limited to people with very limited incomes with no hope of ever paying off their loans, it would be one thing. But it is in reality about a massive transfer of wealth to people with degrees: people with plenty of earning capacity already. >Just because you worked in an office for 30 years and it was manageable, or just because I like coming in for social reasons, need not result in our scorn for those who thrive by not coming into an office. The persom you replied to didn't say RTO was good because he worked in the office for 30 years. He said he had limited sympathy for that reason. I am sure his reason for imploring his team to RTO is that he recognises that people do two thirds of fuck all at home.

scarface_74 2y ago
I’m 50 and he sounds like the prototypical boomer. It’s like the old people who can’t fathom why new grads would spend months “grinding leetCode” to make $170K+ right out of college when the boomer bought their first house in 2002 for $170k (like I did).
g-nair 2y ago
You made plenty of points that I don’t necessarily agree with, but the one I’d love to see data for is that the people’s who’s loans are being forgiven don’t “need” that money!