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Biden wants to give more student debt relief in bankruptcy court. Not everyone's on board.
(www.usatoday.com)
this post was submitted on 26 Dec 2023
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Don't borrow what you can't afford to repay. Easy. Not everyone was stupid enough to get indebted up to their eyeballs, and many weren't "fortunate" enough to even try.
Student debt is sold based on a lie about earnings potential for graduates. Debtors are told that they'll be making X amount of money and will be able to pay off their debt in Y number of years. Then they graduate and find out it was all a lie.
Not at all. All the data is perfectly clear. Some professions make more money than others. Some of those professions require degrees. There are numerous professions that require degrees that do not pay much more money. The lists of the current professional average salaries per geographic area have been published for decades.
If you are too stupid to read a list and see that a $200k education for a $40k/yr job is a poor life choice, why is everyone else subsidizing you?
A $200k education for a $200k/yr job is currently worth it if that's what you want to do. It is not a lie. You just have to do literally 10 minutes of work before you decide your entire life's trajectory. I guarantee these same idiots did more than 10 minutes of "research" to decide what colour $1.5k iPhone they're going to buy.
Why the fuck do you want others to suffer like you did though? You gained zero benefits from your suffering, it just put you in a worse position in your life than if you hadn't suffered.
The cost to you for this change will be miniscule.
Stupid 18-year-olds not understanding complex economic details and believing it when a financial authority lies to them! What are they, fresh out of high school?
That's not an escuse lol? Lots of people figure it out properly. By 18 you should know what you have interests in and what you want to do. If you are that misguided you can delay further education until you have figured it out. Or not at all. Being after high school means you need to know what to do with your life. School is an option.
If you haven't, you're just stupid and/or lazy. That's your prerogative to be that way. But don't drag everyone else down. And this is also why Americans are increasingly laughed at in the world as uneducated and over entitled. Just because you want to make excuses as to why you can't learn things, doesn't mean the rest of the world is following suit.
Of course never having been educated on such topics is an excuse. How are you supposed to understand something no one taught you? It isn't stupidity or laziness despite how much you enjoy calling people stupid and lazy.
Aside from the whole higher education system being built on this loan system
You didn't even read that both people are in situations they never could've predicted happening back when they took those loans, one of which was laid off from the job meant to pay for that loan....
Bad things happen to people all the time. The only time their debt is cancelled is when they die. If I lose my job, is all my debt cancelled? No. If I lose my job do I get to not pay my debts? No.
Bad things happen to people all the time. The only time their debt is cancelled is when they die. If I lose my job, is all my debt cancelled? No. If I lose my job do I get to not pay my debts? No.
There's this thing called bankruptcy, people do it all the time.
student load debt cannot be discharged through bankruptcy
And it is abused all the time making everyone else's life more expensive for not being a gigantic fucking idiot with money.
Got a source on that claim?
Feelings
Apparently, which his must be getting very hurt for how hard he’s lashing out.
*crickets chirping*
Maybe you should be happy when good things happen to a lot of people instead of jealous that it didn't happen to you.
While that is true on the surface, system in USA is so predatory when it comes to finances. You literally can't afford any mistakes of any kind or you are going under.
Don’t loan what they can’t afford to repay. Easy. Not everyone was stupid enough to offer debt up to people’s eyeballs, and many weren’t “fortunate” enough to even try.
Stupid games cause stupid prizes, for everyone involved. Bankruptcy exists for a reason and it was foolish to ever allow any debt to bypass it. Humans always have and always will act in their immediate best interests with a hopeful view of the future, and the best way to accommodate normal behaviour is to balance discouraging it (by encouraging the specialists in debt to refuse bad debt by punishing them with unrepaid loans) and ensuring the people caught in the system can still be functional in society since that is better for them, society, and everyone except the idiots who loaned them money they were never paying back.
If someone is deemed by society too stupid to make life choices we assign them a care giver and they become a ward. If your excuse to taking out mountains of debt is no reason and want to get it all expunged with no penalty, then you should be divested of your finances and have someone appointed to take care of all your financial choices.
Otherwise some societies have debtor prisons where you exchange time of your life for the value you stole from others. The US only has debtors prison for federal taxes even though they don't call it that anymore.
Bankruptcy not allowing certain types of debt is very stupid and obviously because of lobbies. Bankruptcy should be eliminated. The very few people that use it individually are nothing compared to the corporations that use it to hide billions of dollars. Go "bankrupt". Stores stay open. Management continues getting paid. Employees lose their pension and stock benefits. All the creditors like the small supplier shops get no money for the items they sold to the store. Store can continue to sell items and never pay for them at ridiculous prices because the cost is zero.
Trying to control the lives of millions of people because they were too stupid with their finances is a very inefficient solution to the problem (also unpalatable). I think the far simpler option is to simply stop protecting anyone giving bad debt. The government has less work to do, people learn to be smart in what debt they offer, because if they start offering people the moon for punishing but distant costs, they’ll get nothing.
Your solution relies on every human being smart. Mine doesn’t care how smart people are, it ensures the problem is self correcting. Much neater, much less societal harm. Who actually cares about “punishing stupid debtors” when you can instead just not have any stupid debtors.
Just to add, I think the reason bankruptcy needs to exist is to ensure there is no burden on the government enforcing inefficient debt collection. It’s not about fairness or second chances, those are just happy side effects. But if someone’s business model relies on government enforced punishment to function it’s a wasteful model from the governments perspective. Allowing people to go bankrupt means nobody will benefit from this model of debt collection, and thus saves the courts and government to focus on more beneficial contract law involving large amounts of wealth, rather than millions of pittances that cost the government more than they earn the loan sharks.
Pretty sure scratchee and TechNerdWizard42 are the same person.
I assure you we’re not, and we seem to disagree pretty fundamentally, possibly you’re confused by the fact I replied to my own comment, but I assure you that was just because I was a bit drunk and couldn’t find the edit button
There was a bit where you both seemed to have pasted identical responses. The other comment seems to have been deleted.
Please give us a scientific definition of 'stupid.'