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[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I don't live in the USA and I never had student loans. So, this isn't personal for me. I have to say, this seems like a ridiculous characterization to me.

People take out student loans to go to school, which improves their prospects of a higher paying job. I don't really care about people who went to school and paid off their debt and whether they think that future generations should also have to pay off their crippling debt. What I care about are the opinions of the people who could have gone to university but didn't because the debt required seemed outrageous.

Imagine co-valedictorians at a high school. One gets into university, takes on huge debt, gets a good white-collar job, and starts paying off that debt. The other sees how enormous the cost would be, and instead gets a blue collar job. I would imagine that if the white collar worker got their debts wiped out, while the blue collar worker got nothing, that blue collar worker would be pretty annoyed. I would also imagine that someone choosing to go into a blue collar job out of high school would be much more common among a certain group / class of people.

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[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

He beat cancer by doing it the good old-fashioned hard way.

Everyone who has toiled & suffered for decades to pay off their student loans the good old-fashioned hard way, are livid that some younger people have gotten their student loans forgiven.

I get it, I just wanted to spell it out because it's an interesting comic.

[–] macaw_dean_settle@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It is a false equivalent. People do not choose to have cancer, yet some people choose poorly and take loans they cannot repay. This is on them.

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If you follow the analogy, then you want everyone else to go through chemo to beat your cancer... Kinda weird.

[–] BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 days ago

And next he will be paying for physiotherapy to treat the msd from twisting his wrists like that.

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