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Well we're nowhere near a dystopia and life is full of choices. Some chose things like labor or lower paying job opportunities and no debt. Others chose debt for less labor or higher paying job opportunities. Both paths have risk, negatives, and positives.
Using tax dollars to remove all college debt is a big FU to anyone who chose not to go that route, because anyone who didn't go to college is still stuck with all their negatives.
Making all future college free all of a sudden would be great for capitalist companies that aren't in blue collar fields and bad for any current college required employees when colleges start pumping out more people with no debt so they're willing to take 9ver your job for less money.
You want your utopia, halt interest on college debt and then start putting a price cap on tuition\books\expenses that slowly lowers over the course of the next 30 years until it's free. No one's jobs get destabilized. No one feels like they got screwed over. The end goal of free college is still accomplished.
That's why there was a large push for student debt forgiveness literally a year ago. But the right still flipped their shit. It's not about fairness to the people in the past, it's about fairness for those in the future. Children should not be in massive debt at 16 or 17. Hell, I feel like nobody should be taking on debt until they can fully understand what it takes to pay a debt off. So, not a student.
The right just love to pull up the ladder.
"Debt forgiveness" is why it failed. That's bullshit. Free pass to everyone who already went to college and still had debt, doesn't help anyone else, doesn't make college more affordable, just bails out former college grads.