[troutwine]

> I actually agree with you. We need to rethink how education works and is funded. I also think education is valuable and needed in lots of fields. > > I just don't think we should excuse people's existing debt. We should look to fix things in the future.

Ah, okay, there's the difference. I tend to think that solutions to issues that don't address defects in the present moment are partial at best. Maybe, also, I don't imagine that most people with student debt were profligate, and, even of those that were, I don't think they ought to be held to account in perpetuity for that, especially if we end up settling on the notion that the root cause was a failure to properly value education as a society.