I’ll never understand why people who don’t have student loan debt are so opposed to letting debt forgiveness happen. Actually, I do understand why but I think it’s spiteful and selfish and I can’t comprehend being such an enormous dick. They don’t think anyone else should get to benefit if THEY don’t get to. This is a perfect example of what’s wrong with modern American culture.
And the thing they conveniently forget when they say “you chose to take out those loans” is that the system is literally designed to be predatory. They take advantage of young people whose brains aren’t fully developed by brainwashing them to think college is the only path to success and then shackling them to a hamster wheel of insurmountable debt as the price of admission.
@lemontart i never finished a degree.. mainly because i never took out loans, at all. i think you are corrrect though.. loans are very often not thoroughly explained and people get ushered in at a time in their lives where they might not even know exactly what they want to do
@lemontart It's not just that. I lost my job to NAFTA changes (they split my work in 2 & hired 2 20 yo people to do it- one of whom was in Canada) at an age where no one wants to hire you. (my former company literally had a web page where it said older workers had to move aside to make room for the young...) Bcuz it was NAFTA, I got some help to go back to school for another degree so I took a chance when no one had shown any interest after 6 months. Ended up w 40K in debt which is now over 90k