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1. d (deprecated_ii@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jan-2024 02:29:01 JST d

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   • Hoss Delgado
   • veff :trash:
   @veff @Hoss you're not paying for knowledge, you're paying for some credential (or credit if you don't finish) and I think you absolutely should be able to give it back as part of clearing debt
   
   they say "paying for college is an investment" but if you can't pay the loans off, obviously the investment didn't pay off, and what you bought is worthless crap
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   • veff :trash: (veff@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jan-2024 02:29:02 JST veff :trash:

     • Hoss Delgado

     Student loans cannot be nulled by bankruptcy because the transaction fundamentally is ethereal and non-taxable. This is a power imbalance where the loan recipient cant rightly "give back/undo" their knowledge acquisition in the same way a house can be taken from you for not paying back loans.

     The real way to fix education is to make it all free, which is basically already true. If I can find all the resources to learn a subject online, there's zero reason to go to school for it. If I can't learn it because I don't have the resources (tools/equipment/machinery), then the problem corrects itself because said resources can be taken from me if I don't repay my loans.
     
     RT: https://shitpost.cloud/objects/fb44fb26-b40e-4d25-9db5-14fd4215de35

     Weaf :jv::nv: repeated this.