"My house is not on fire so I don't think you should go around putting out fires of other people's houses because I won't benefit"
What people need to do is stop using generational logic and focus on the hear and now. Boomer by a year, but I can't go into a car dealership and jump and scream that my dad paid $7000 for a new GTO back in 1967 and I'd like the same please"My house is not on fire so I don't think you should go around putting out fires of other people's houses because I won't benefit"
By this logic baby boomers should have to pay more tuition so it's up to current market value, to be fair to everyone.
I just... don't have patience for people who think that way anymore.
"My house is not on fire so I don't think you should go around putting out fires of other people's houses because I won't benefit"
By this logic baby boomers should have to pay more tuition so it's up to current market value, to be fair to everyone.
I just... don't have patience for people who think that way anymore.
Again, because they look at it from a generational stand point. Here's the thing that a lot of people can't wrap their heads around, and I have 3 kids, one out of college, one graduating this year and one more to go.
I stopped paying as much attention to twitter when political things trend. It's usually Political Conservatives trying to drum up controversy about nothing. Like yesterday I saw "CNN and MSNBC" trend and it was conservatives tin foil hatting how they paid that "Antifa Protester" from the Insurrection for video that he took of someone dying during the riot. It's just not worth worrying/caring about what they have to say. It's all meaningless chatter. Twitter is good for somethings but an absolute dumpster fire for people wanting to make a mountain out of a molehill.
My only bit of political info and conversation has been relegated to here. I've dumped all my political "friends" on FB, cleaned all the political feeds off Youtube and I'm happier for it. 4 years of non-stop Trump cost a lot of us a lot of different things, unfortunately some family and friends, but aside from that, I can't take the 24-7 non stop negativity and nonsense anymore, it's not healthy.
Sorry you have to deal with this delusional bullshit.
To be honest if you look at it from an equity standpoint, student loan debt relief mostly benefits certain demographics and most of the people who benefit are not in poverty. Ultimately though neither I nor my SO have any student loan debt remaining I support any debt relief in any form but just wiping out a portion of student debt is certainly not the most equitable based off the demographics of the people currently carrying student debt.
That's an interesting point about demographics. I, like has been mentioned here, also tend to frame my thoughts about the criticism that people shouldn't have gone to college if they couldn't afford it from the mindset that everyone in my generation was given the expectation that they would go to college and it was never an option. However, obviously that isn't true to everyone and plenty of people who went to my high school actually were given the opposite expectation from birth. I guess that is something I should keep in mind to check my privilege.
Yeah, a lot of debt carried by POC is not Student Loan based. Lots of people below the poverty line carry debt from Medical bills, credit cards/payday lending, legal fees and fines, etc... they would see very little if any direct benefit from student loan debt relief. Again any debt relief is ultimately good but targeting it narrowly to people carrying students loans now isn’t ideal. Also, I think if they passed student loan debt relief it should also be paired with policy that would eliminate future student loan debt a one time debt forgiveness is a band aid over a gaping wound. It’s better than nothing but not nearly enough.
