LogFAQs > #968824341

Dumb analogy.

Cancer is an impartial disease that kills humans. It causes death and you have limited control over it.

Student debt is something you absolutely have control over, is a privilege not a right (by legal definition as it is not something intrinsically granted to you by government powers in US), and you would be making blue collar workers pay more for your mistakes.

Crying about student debt also hurts any arguments for free college as you're proving first hand most college degrees are useless, or even good college degrees can be a waste of time and money without a good GPA or potentially some connections to get your foot through the door. Good paying jobs dintcneed debt relief because they are lucrative enough to be worth it and pay your debt in a reasonable manner.

Additionally, college for everyone just changes the playing field so having a degree becomes intrinsically less useful. Foreign countries where college is massively subsidized pay far shittier for degreed positions relative to the US, the ones that do pay well can be elitist as to where you went to school, and schools can still be picky over who they administer.

The end results is that most jobs that "require" a degree dont actually require a degree. A degree is nothing more than something a company uses as a form of elitism to weed out applicants. Free college for all just gives rise to extreme college elitism and oversatuaration of degrees so people with degrees get paid like shit due to oversupply and less demand and the few high paying jobs still go to people from universities that will filter riff raff out through pay walls or GPA/SAT requirements.