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0 pointsTheAceOfHearts2y ago0 comments

My primary concern with student loan relief is that it doesn't resolve the underlying issues. Student loan relief should probably be coupled with some kind of educational system reform in order to escape the vicious cycle. Otherwise in a few years we'll basically end up in the same place.

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toomuchtodo2y ago· 2 in thread

This is a valid concern. Of course, the problem is Congress is dysfunctional so a strategic fix (universal public higher ed) being enacted is potentially many years in the future (if at all). This is immediate, tactical relief for people who are suffering financially. In the same way that someone bleeding to death on the pavement doesn’t care about dysfunctional healthcare policy at that moment; they want to get stabilized.

(I hit the highest marginal income brackets and support this policy; good policy is the interaction of compassion and pragmatism at scale)

gustavus2y ago

I don't understand why people are pushing universal higher ed. Based on everything I see and have heard the first 2 years of college end up recapping everything you should've learned in high school. So we'd be served just as well by making high school optional and actually focus on teaching while not forcing students who don't want to be there to be there. It's accomplish the same thing but not cost nearly as much.

Jcowell2y ago

Depends on the high school doesn’t it ? I didn’t have Computer Science in my high school so it was all new to me Anyone who was good in any subjects would have taken a College Course or AP classes to skip the classes you’re talking about.

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