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Originally Posted by Irace86.2.0
I agree on the COVID stuff, as those are all good points, but to your analogy, while I get your point, I’m for student loan forgiveness of some kind, and I think public college should be free. I think certain jobs should get more relief based on the need for workers in that field, so someone majoring in 13th century Asian art shouldn’t get the type of relief a teacher or doctor gets. They should zero the interest on the loans and if someone already has paid more in interest than their borrowed amount then they should be completely forgiven. A salary based repayment system that isn’t as bad as the system we have now would be good too. I could go on. Inherently, any system will not be perfectly fair, but it would be better than the current system where we saddle students with debt and hold that over them, and where we have a system of financial barriers in place to higher education, and where we have a system where wealth and not merit often determines what schools people can attend.
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At risk of veering way off-topic, I think there's a lot that can be said about this sort of thing.
Personally my parents didn't make enough to qualify for parent salary-based financial aid but were I guess you could say lower middle class. So they required me to work outside of school plus every break (summer, spring, winter breaks full-time). I also had to get scholarships on my own pretty much.
I was also responsible for my apartment rent (they did help with that from time to time if my bank account was close to 0 and I realize a lot of students can't even get that kind of help).
I don't personally think anyone else should need to do that. But on the other hand I do think that just outright forgiving _everybody_ would be a joke to all of us who did work hard to support ourselves and our higher education.