Student loan debt should not be cancelled except when the school isn’t valid. It’s unfair for a plumber to pay for someone else’s degree.

  • Grant_M@lemmy.ca
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    7 months ago

    Great stuff from an excellent POTUS. Hope he’s able to continue despite the criminal GOP.

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      7 months ago

      Tell me you don’t know how trades apprenticeships work without telling me you don’t know how they work.

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        7 months ago

        I mean, there are some schools for plumbers, but most people I know learned it through an apprenticeship. I don’t know anyone who went to plumber college or carpenter college. They learned it by doing it.

        I wish I had learned more about plumbing when I was younger.

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        7 months ago

        You also “pay” for our huge corn and gas subsidies, to bomb brown people, and to practically give away the anywhere from $80 to $200 billion in PPP loans that went straight into the pockets of the 1%, but that never seems to bother you lot.

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          7 months ago

          So because the government wastes money already, we should just waste more and more of it? If you break your leg, should you just go ahead and start smashing some other bones since you already broke one?

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            7 months ago

            Are those spending programs also “wasteful”? Because the complaints only seem to start when they benefit the “wrong sort of people”.

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          7 months ago

          I’m fine with our gas subsidies. It helps poor people like yourself. Otherwise you’d be whining about gas prices.

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            7 months ago

            Gas subsidies are an economic decision to lower transport costs for industry and consumers alike, it’s why our gas prices are so much lower than practically anywhere else. Besides stunting renewable development, it’s a perfectly reasonable strategy.

            Cancelling student loan debt and, ultimately, overhauling the system that puts students into said debt in the first place is also beneficial to society. More educated, intelligent, and qualified people only hurts reactionary and regressive goals.

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              7 months ago

              How is canceling student loan debt helping society? Does that benefit outweigh the cost?

              More college educated people will not necessarily improve society, there are many majors that provide no benefit.