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The thing I don't understand about this is that Public Student Loan Forgiveness already exists. It's already a service available to a small percentage of the population, where all your loans are automatically forgiven after 10 years, and the forgiveness is not taxable. But I don't see any outrage about people wanting to be compensated for not being eligible for that program when it first started in 2007.

Also, this isn't the first time something became available to people and previous people didn't get compensated.
- When Lasek was created, people with lifelong eye problems weren't compensated for all the money spent on glasses and contacts while newly-vision-impaired people got the treatment immediately
- Families of those who died of incurable medical conditions weren't compensated when a cure for that condition was invented that helps people today
- When Medicaid expansion became a thing and more people became eligible for Medicaid, no one who would have qualified for that expansion before it was passed was compensated for the years they didn't get it
- Many school districts across the nation have shifted to a free lunch format for the whole district (instead of only serving free-lunch-eligible students) so all students get fed regardless of income. Any families whose kids are now out of school are not getting compensated for the years of school lunches they had to pay for their kids simply because now all kids get free lunch.

That's just how progress works. When something new comes around, you can't retroactively compensate everyone who existed before that new thing came. Where would it end? If that were the case, nothing new could ever be introduced.

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