Did you voluntarily give yourself cancer for odds at a better and less laborous job?
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Student loan forgiveness is regressive. College graduates earn well over $600,000 more in lifetime income than others on average, a figure far beyond the amount of student debt they are in (median is around $20-25,000).
Given this fact, paying those loans off at the expense of (primarily) those who didn't go to college is a redistribution of wealth from a poorer to a richer demographic, regressive by definition.
Though forget lifetime, the difference in income is sizable right out of the gate:
Around half of young college graduates with student loans (48%) have household incomes of at least $100,000.
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If you follow the analogy, then you want everyone else to go through chemo to beat your cancer... Kinda weird.
I just want the playing field to be level, I prioritized paying my loans off instead of buying a home when that would have actually been affordable. Now that money is gone and the housing market has blown up so much that I'm not sure I'll ever be able to afford it. If all the people currently paying their loans suddenly get the slate cleared it will create even more competition for homes and my situation will be even worse. Reimburse me for mine and I'll shut the fuck up about it.
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Or ozempic. Or stopping smoking by vaping. For all the talk of folks falling for misinformation by wishful belief in miracle cures and simple solutions - the other side of people fucking hate miracle cures for no goddamn reason.
Edit: unsurprisingly dude responding to me is blocked. Lol. Like clockwork.
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Nailed it