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by spdy 1391 days ago
Oh wow. This sums up what’s wrong with our growing individualism where it’s only me me me.

The goal should be to strive as a society not everyone can be a doctor, lawyer or investment banker.

And education and healthcare are prime examples where we have to pay the tab together.

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People who want their loan forgiven are the me me me. They don't want to fix the system for the next generation, they just want a check to their name.
You can want loans forgiven and want the system fixed. Where are you getting an observation that, in general, people who want loans forgiven also do not want the system fixed?
Biden didn't campaign on changing the system, he campaigned on loan forgiveness. His strategists obviously picked the preferred platform.
Education is not a prime example. Many degrees ARE useless. Paying your own way is a massive incentive to pick a valuable and reasonably priced degree. Many people consider healthcare a human right. Getting to spend 4 years half assedly drawing supply and demand graphs or writing essays about proust is most definitely not!