Student loan forgiveness - Lol if you actually paid your student loans back.

3/10

I liked the concept, but you did a poor job with it.

If the deal was that you had already paid off your student loans and the new program put money into a retirement fund for you... to draw interest on for 20 years or so... would that make your butt hurt less? Just asking?

falsey wrote:

3/10

I liked the concept, but you did a poor job with it.

Absolutely - the OP could have done so much better.

Specificity is the heart of narrative, and this troll job just lack the details to really hook us.

OP, how do you deal with this moral dilemma?

run with the wom wrote:

If the deal was that you had already paid off your student loans and the new program put money into a retirement fund for you... to draw interest on for 20 years or so... would that make your butt hurt less? Just asking?

What if you didn't take out loans in the first place?

I had ~$300K in assets when I started med school. I decided to use that money to pay my tuition and living expenses. I'll basically graduate with no debts and no assets, which is a good position to be in and probably what "the public" should want me to do.

If the government forgives debt, they are telling me that I should have left my $300K invested and taken out loans to pay for school even though I didn't need to. Under debt forgiveness, I could have graduated with assets of $300K plus interest and zero debt if I'd taken out loans. If student loans are a problem, why would the government incentivize this strategy?

kokoro wrote:

falsey wrote:

3/10

I liked the concept, but you did a poor job with it.

Absolutely - the OP could have done so much better.

Specificity is the heart of narrative, and this troll job just lack the details to really hook us.

Agreed, what a waste.

the ascent wrote:

If you paid them back you are stupid and don't deserve any pity.

I only paid like 10k of mine off and stopped paying altogether 5 years ago, what are they going to do garnish my non existent wages? do you know how hard it is to find a job with a degree in philosophy? I am a philosopher and it isn't my fault I am not being paid for my contributions to society. I got a degree to think and that is what I do I think and I ponder.

Honestly I think we deserve to have our student loans forgiven after we were lied to in high school about following our dreams and going to college and being guaranteed a high paying job when we graduate.

0/10

Nobody dreams about being a philosopher.

the ascent wrote:

If you paid them back you are stupid and don't deserve any pity.

I only paid like 10k of mine off and stopped paying altogether 5 years ago, what are they going to do garnish my non existent wages? do you know how hard it is to find a job with a degree in philosophy? I am a philosopher and it isn't my fault I am not being paid for my contributions to society. I got a degree to think and that is what I do I think and I ponder.

Honestly I think we deserve to have our student loans forgiven after we were lied to in high school about following our dreams and going to college and being guaranteed a high paying job when we graduate.

Maybe you should have went after your dreams with a little more Cartesian skepticism...you definitely wouldn't be so far in debt.

So how worried are you about graduating with no money, spending 3 or 4 years in a residency living like a poor person and then only making $110k year after Medicare for all becomes a thing?

I'm very interested in what you did personally to earn that $300k in assets before going to med school. Seems like you are just upset at the notion of other people getting (much smaller) handouts than you did.

I was in my early 30s when I started med school. I worked in an unrelated field and saved for a decade before going back to school.

I'm not upset about anything. I'm just wondering why anyone would want me to debt finance my education instead of paying out of pocket for it, which is what the debt forgiveness idea incentivizes.

Not very.

the ascent wrote:

If you paid them back you are stupid and don't deserve any pity.

I only paid like 10k of mine off and stopped paying altogether 5 years ago, what are they going to do garnish my non existent wages? do you know how hard it is to find a job with a degree in philosophy? I am a philosopher and it isn't my fault I am not being paid for my contributions to society. I got a degree to think and that is what I do I think and I ponder.

Honestly I think we deserve to have our student loans forgiven after we were lied to in high school about following our dreams and going to college and being guaranteed a high paying job when we graduate.

1-What are your contributions to society besides being a student loan deadbeat?

2-you got a degree to think? Really? Well, you should have thought about getting a more productive degree.

3-We deserve to have our student loans forgiven? Why, because of your poor choice in choosing a useless degree?

4-being guaranteed? Now you make me laugh, kid, there are only 2 things guaranteed in life: Pay taxes and at the end die.

Get real self-entitled self-pity millennial.

So we're stupid for getting a useful degree and paying off our loans? You're actually the stupid one for getting a pointless degree. Even if you never pay back your loan, you'll never have any way to retire or prosper financially if you never make any money. Also, your credit is going to take a hit from all the loans.

I contribute to society by pondering the human condition and our world, and sharing my thoughts so that we can grow.

If you don’t get why philosophers and the work we do is important, then you are truly a lost philistine.

the ascent wrote:

If you don’t get why philosophers and the work we do is important, then you are truly a lost philistine.

We call people like you deadbeats.

Hook, line, and sinker!

General Tso wrote:

OP, how do you deal with this moral dilemma?

I got a car loan i could use some help with.

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