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Originally Posted by nfotiu
Canceling student debt seems to be a political mindfield.
This NY Times article from the weekend has a lot of solid points. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/14/o...bt-cancel.html
Widespread forgiveness just to help out people at one point in time seems to not really fix anything. |
Of course it wouldn’t fix anything. Actually fixing the problem of relentlessly rising higher education costs would involve messy and contentious reform of powerful institutions. This is just a bribe to a small and privileged but highly politically active constituency.