We Must Cancel Everyone’s Student Debt, for the Economy’s Sake

Re:We Must Cancel Everyone’s Student Debt, for the Economy’s... by always_good on Saturday February 10, 2018 @10:49AM (#16347775)

> It rewards a poor decision, one that others handled better.

Do you believe this about health care as well?

Some people exercise and eat healthy every day yet they share the same scarce medical resources as someone who smokes and is overweight. Those people may be in the same insurance pool and may pay the same for those services.

Aren't we rewarding the poor decision? Why does the guy working his ass off in the gym every morning have to pay for obese people? These questions sound the same to the ones you're asking, except in this case, it's just money and education instead of public health which is far more grave.

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Re:We Must Cancel Everyone’s Student Debt, for the Economy’s... by troydavis on Saturday February 10, 2018 @11:17AM (#16347903)

Good question. Addressed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16347225#16347792

Basically, making changes for the future (a shared healthcare pool, subsidized tuition, or anything else) is different than retroactively adjusting an arbitrary subset (only outstanding debt, only from tuition) of the past.

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