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I'm a bit confused. If they choose to pay "the hard way" in their 40s but get the payments discharged by the government, they get both an easier 20s, 30s, and 40s then you, and would then be actively competing with you for other cost item, like housing. I'm all for forgiveness honestly, but your argument doesn't seem entirely honest.
I mean, I'm arguing under this supposition that actual complete student loan forgiveness will not happen in America in our lifetimes.
Even well-meaning people are radically opposed to it because they feel like it's giving some random person a one up in life that they did not get and their own greed and world viewpoints won't allow them to support that.
A very small select group of people that provide a crucial good for society do get that, and people are still mad about it, like underpaid teachers who work in the teaching field for ten years, and pay their student loans for ten years, and owe more on the student loans after ten years of paying it in a job they're underpaid for, that they worked their asses off to get, and had to fight tooth and nail to keep, and we still have asshole politicians who work their asses off night and day to trying to find a way to prevent them from getting their student loans forgiven.
And those assholes are elected by other assholes who are electing them specifically because they're the kind of assholes that would try to make sure that the teachers that trained their children how to be educated adults remain in poverty.
That being said, I do reiterate that if all student loans were forgiven, even though I literally this year alone paid $32,000 of my own money towards my student loans to finish paying them off, because you know your boy be ballin' like that, then I will not be mad or sad or upset that somebody else got a one up in life.
Instead, I will join in the celebration with all of my other peeps who now have that tiny couple of hundred extra dollars a month to spend on more important things like uber eats and facials and massages.