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Last week I saw someone respond to a tweet about college debt forgiveness with a rant about how their kid did the responsible thing and went to a community college they could afford instead of wracking up debt and how debt forgiveness isn’t fair and I can’t stop thinking about it
I cannot wrap my head around this fixation on “fairness”, ultimately this person’s kid wouldn’t be hurt if others in a worse-off position got even partial college debt forgiveness and yet all this parent could think about was the injustice of people who need help receiving it
This whole country is a bucket and we are all crabs https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crab_mentality
The way some people romanticize this idea that suffering builds character, that enduring hardship should be worn as a badge of honor, that persevering through systemic disadvantages is somehow heroic—it's at the very core of why a collective push for progress feels so impossible
Nothing about being weighed down by college debt is romantic or heroic; there are no bootstraps to be pulled on, there is only busy work and economic anxiety and it's just so disheartening to see a parent argue that other people's children don't deserve help bc their kid is fine.
And beyond that, if we provide significant economic relief for the most educated generation in history, imagine how much innovation, creativity, and development would be able to happen? That's something literally everybody would benefit from in a multitude of ways.
Anyway I hope that parent sees this article and feels something other than a sense of "good riddance" 
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/04/millennials-are-new-lost-generation/609832/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/04/millennials-are-new-lost-generation/609832/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
