#he apparently wanted to work for the FBI but didnt like having to fly all the time and didnt pursue it

[xicanaroja]

My toxic trait is that I'm anti student loan forgiveness. Not in like a "higher education should be pay walled ra ra ra" kinda way, but in a "of all the things we as a nation are going to invest debt forgiveness towards, it's this???"

I'm sorry but I just don't think American public policy should be focusing on forgiving the debt of people who chose to go to college/university, and who will then get a leg up on other people in the workforce who don't have degrees, simply by virtue of having a degree? Like the debt forgiveness conversation should focus more on medical debt and school lunch debt, things that Actually are killing and starving people, than student loan debt. And it's not to say that I think debt forgiveness for student loans shouldn't be a priority - trust me, I believe fully in the total and complete abolition of money and debt. I just hate how "boo-hoo pity me" these college educated assholes are, when they CHOSE to go to college. You can say "oh, but they were minors/barely adults when they made this choice", but that argument doesn't fly in the US for crimes committed by minors/barely 18 years old. Why should you get debt forgiveness because you were young and naive when you took it on, but people that same age who commit a crime get tried as adults and held fully responsible for their actions? Just things to think about...