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Cfp0001-Iceman t1_iz3vi8s wrote

Reply to comment by AggressiveSkywriting in Hackers linked to Chinese government stole millions in Covid benefits, Secret Service says by Marco280892

> People who did not attend college who have felt or experienced being looked down on by the college educated. This is either them seeing people who have more privileged lives than themselves getting even MORE help

This is it largely for me. I mean, I 100% get why it's a good thing, but once again it is just help for people who may not have actually needed it when there are solutions that still would have helped them and benefited the rest of us who never got that far.

So, sure, 100% forgive their loans, forgive all of it and give them their money back they already paid.

But for the love of god, don't fucking stop there. Don't forget those who couldn't afford to even go into more debt. Don't stop at loan forgiveness or otherwise I can understand why people think it's bullshit and all you look down on us for not liking it can go fuck yourselves.

We cant even get a $15 minimum wage and people want their college debt forgiven. Let's not even talk about how much more money a college grad makes over a high school grad. Pretty sure the majority of people making minimum wage didn't get a college degree or did while getting their degree. It's tough listening to this fight when we didn't even win the last one.

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AggressiveSkywriting t1_iz4n05c wrote

> But for the love of god, don't fucking stop there.

Totally agree here. One of the problems is that the wealthy try to draw a stark class line between college workers and non college workers despite the salary difference being a lot closer than they are to the wealthy class. They pit the two groups against each other constantly in every media outlet with "Business" or "Money" in the name so we fight and never work towards bettering the workers together.

I have to pay a lot more in taxes now than I did when I was a struggling waiter for ten years, but I'm not gonna bitch about paying my due. I remember what it was like to stare at $80 in my bank account and decided which bill to pay first and which can slide. I want public services funded to help people. I want schools funded. If someone get to the point where they can let bills sit on autopay and not worry and they actively work against any govt benefits for those making less than them, well they can piss off.

What I am gonna bitch about are the wealthy fucks who do everything they can to pay less effective tax than the rest of us while also trying to dismantle said public services.

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