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The excuse I was just given was that this is supposed to help the downtrodden, and there isn't much concern for if it's really fair to people that paid off or made sacrifices to not incur the debt others have.

The armchair shrink in me thinks it's an effort to avoid the idea that any of the debt issue is the fault of the borrower (over borrowing to go to an expensive school, taking courses with poor return prospects, poor money management skills in life making keeping the streaming services more important than paying your debt). They want the image of debt forgiveness to be taking back from greedy universities, not a nationwide covering of those that fucked up where others made it through. Not just to make the program a better sell, but to prevent admitting they were the fuck ups in question.

If it were up to me, I'd be for it as a government program you apply for, but you now work for them until your debt is paid at wherever shit job they want you do to (those infrastructure repairs people want have to be done by somebody) . Sadly, indentured servitude got abused and ruined as a concept.
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