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  • JDPoZ@beehaw.orgtoPolitics@beehaw.org•By a 6-3 majority, Supreme Court strikes down Biden's student loan debt relief planEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Let’s re-examine your statement by switching out a couple of words that keep the idea of “why should they get <x>?” to show how it would sound with any other context.

    I <had to lose my eye to a car wreck> - why should we force <carmakers to build vehicles with seatbelts> for what is already the most entitled generation ever?

    They <want to drive> - they can <drive in a car without a seatbelt just like I did>. Otherwise where does it stop? Are they going to <mandate airbags in cars> next?

    Why not? It’s the same principle.

    Do you understand now? If not, try changing what’s in the <x> to being related to “cancer treatment” or “the 40 hour work week” or “social security.”

    Just because something before was bad and we made it better, doesn’t mean we should not do it just because it won’t help everyone.

  • JDPoZ@beehaw.orgtoPolitics@beehaw.org•By a 6-3 majority, Supreme Court strikes down Biden's student loan debt relief planEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Framing here’s a bit off. You shouldn’t have to go to school - sure… as a requirement… but the big thing that’s completely being missed (as we have been taught that college is for “fancy” jobs) is that in other decent countries… there is no cost to it.

    Advanced educated populaces are seen by non - “authoritarian-run-shit-holes” as something that makes a country more economically competitive in an increasingly global job market.

    Whether it’s being paid to learn on the job training with a welding apprenticeship subsidized by taxes, or being able to go to medical school via tax-subsidized funds that don’t create artificial barriers to entry for the poor for no other reason - it’s a good thing for advanced education (and pre-school and every other form of education) to be publicly funded.