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.
@lemontart I had a lot of student debt, paid it all off, still super happy for those whose burden was lifted.
@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
@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 I have a friend whose parents were clearly Republicans and who thinks she's a Dem but really isn't who has it imprinted on her brain cells that people pay off their own loans. I try to point out how often businesses go bankrupt, shorting everyone who contributed to their success. But she can't make the leap. She knows I'm underwater in my loans and tries not to say anything but you can hear the silence.
@TrueBloodNet sounds like a person who lacks empathy tbh. Actually I think that’s true of most people opposed to student loan forgiveness.
@lemontart Because they don’t want to let anyone else have a chance at the piece of the pie. They are so damn greedy and will step on their own grandmothers for $.
At the same time it pisses me off about how forgiving they are about those PPP loans. Oh it’s totally different they say, oh it was necessary to stay in business. Well some of them defrauded the system. What did Margie two toes need with it?
It’s still a loan that they were obligated to pay back so what’s the difference? Hypocrites.
@lemontart When something happens to me that I don't like, my thought is always "how can we keep that happening to someone else".
But there's other people who seem to respond with "If I had to suffer, I want _everyone_ to suffer!"
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.