The marijuana comparison is not even close to the same thing.
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Charapaso@lemmy.world 5 weeks agoBut…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.
paf0@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 5 weeks ago
In terms of harm done, no. Principle? Yeah? It’s best to stop further harm, but undoing past harms is even better.
paf0@lemmy.world 5 weeks 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.
conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Except the system is so fucked that even terrible low paying jobs routinely ignore applicants without degrees.
jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 5 weeks ago
The assumption that you should only do things that are profitable is faulty. I don’t want to live in a world where that’s true, and if you thought about it longer you probably also don’t. Assuming you like books, art, music, culture, etc.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Well, when you say it like that, I can only believ— wait a minute. Show me the receipts. The ‘missing middle’ is real.
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
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.