• foggy@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Okay so for starters I am for cancelling this debt.

    But this thread is full of people in this thread making false equivalencies with regard to why people might oppose this. Things I’ve seen:

    “Fuck you I got mine”

    “My dad died of cancer so it’d be wrong if them to continue cancer research”

    “Just evil”

    “A bunch of people who don’t have debt”

    Etc.

    And for all of you this applies to I offer this: What is the plan for preventing it from continuing after the current orders of debt are cancelled? Is there anything? I genuinely haven’t heard it if it exists. If there isn’t a plan on stifling the lending rates forever more, then the issue will just resurface, likely worse. I’m all for cancelling the debt but is there a plan for preventing the debt?

    • scmstr@lemmynsfw.com
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      11 months ago

      That’s literally always been the goal, and conservatives have pounded their chests and dragged their feet, and now liberals have had to back up to doing subtle payment plans and exclusive relief measures that require a person to be in debt for decades.

      I’m sorry, but what a bad take.