Comment on Video of Eric Schmidt blaming remote work for Google’s woes mysteriously vanishes

• exanime@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah, same reason I don’t like insulin, I want a permanent cure for diabetes… In the meantime fuck diabetic people, am I right?

  /S in case people are confused

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  • paf0@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Free education will make the world a better place in the future for everyone. Debt forgiveness is just for people who don’t want to pay their bills because they studied something that doesn’t pay.

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    • exanime@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Curing diabetes will make the world a better place in the future for everyone. Insuline is just for people who want to eat candy all day because they hate themselves

      /S

      Ps: it’s hilarious how quickly you showed the true colours you pretended to hide in your first post

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      • paf0@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        PS: Huh?

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    • ProxyZeus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m genuinely confused by this? I know CompSci and engineering majors that are having trouble with loans and are you saying that they should have tried a more profitable degree… What?

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      • paf0@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I’m saying people made choices.

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    • ameancow@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Free education will make the world a better place in the future for everyone.

      This is true.

      Debt forgiveness is just for people who don’t want to pay their bills because they studied something that doesn’t pay.

      This is utter garbage. Judgemental much? Maybe your own experiences aren’t the same for everyone.

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      • paf0@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I do not have a degree. Still here and happy. Make better choices.

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• SeaJ@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  ¿Por qué no los dos?

  I too prefer free tertiary education. But that also does not relieve the millions saddled with predatory loans.

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  • paf0@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Not all loans were predatory, some people just made dumb choices all on their own. If anything there should be a reasonable limit on the interest rates and the loans should be refinanced.

    And, as for why not both, we actually can’t afford either. Investing for the future is a better deal for society than fixing people’s personal mistakes.

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    • SeaJ@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What do you mean we can’t afford either? Are you telling me that somehow all other developed countries are able to afford free or cheap higher education but somehow the US cannot? We could also slowly start to cancel current student debt. Sure, it is at $1.77 trillion right now but that does not have to be wiped away all at once. Prioritize getting rid of predatory loans, then those those with financial hardship, then go from there.

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      • paf0@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yes, we can’t afford it, because we chose to spend all of our money on the military.

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• Charapaso@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  But…if you think free public university is a good thing…isn’t not giving loan forgiveness analogous to saying “folks should stay in jail for trumped up marijuana charges until it’s legal Federally”? IMHO people shouldn’t have these loans in the first place.

  If we can’t afford loan forgiveness, we can’t afford free public university. We can simultaneously fix the problems of the past while trying to improve things for the future.

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  • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    until it’s legal Federally”?

    it would be worse actually, it would be the equivalent of federally legalizing weed, but then doing nothing for all the existing weed charges and just letting them roll out their time.

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  • paf0@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The marijuana comparison is not even close to the same thing.

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    • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      In terms of harm done, no. Principle? Yeah? It’s best to stop further harm, but undoing past harms is even better.

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      • paf0@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It’s also important for dumb choices to have consequences. The systemic racism that brought the majority of the marijuana convictions is not even close in comparison to someone who borrowed money to get a degree that was never going to make a decent income.

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    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Well, when you say it like that, I can only believ— wait a minute. Show me the receipts. The ‘missing middle’ is real.

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