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by WalterBright 127 days ago
Why should other people be on the hook for your decisions?
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If there are decisions that are so bad people shouldn't be on the hook for them, we should prohibit those decisions.

Banning credit for a large portion of the population would be a net good but we can't have that conversation.

I'm not suggesting banning credit.

A deal between loaner and borrower should be a free agreement between them, not something imposed by the government.

Thanks to the crashed economy I was on the hook for hundreds of other people’s bad decisions and the degree I went for did not result in a job despite prospects being more than good when I began the program.

People who want loan forgiveness anbd to rework the financial aid system aren’t looking for a get out of jail free card, they’re looking yo even the playing field a bit.