Young Americans are piling the blame for their student debt balances on conservatives, according to a poll by Generation Lab provided exclusively to Axios.
You think my beverage of choice is Kool Aid because you equate my rugged individualism and hatred of being forced to pay for shit I personally don’t use for not endorsing collectivism for things I do actually use and am entitled to.
I will never go to school. Can’t afford it. Don’t have the brain power. It’s just a waste of my hard earned money.
I’m entitled to use the roads because the state takes taxes out of my check to maintain them. I voluntarily pay lottery tickets that also go towards roads and education. None of that would mean anything if I didn’t pay for gas, insurance, tags, through work.
You see… All that infrastructure means jack all if I’m some derelict on welfare not using it. If I just smoked weed all day, gamed, and feasted on snacks all that collectivist infrastructure doesn’t benefit me at all.
It’s only because of my rugged individualism and work ethic that I get to use what’s there. The fridge cannot keep my koolaid under the room temperature if I cannot pay the electric. The electric can’t be paid unless I work. Everything in life relies on my own self determination.
Didn’t I anticipate the “I pay my taxes argument” a few posts back? All the taxes you will ever pay will not account for a percentage of a fraction of the things you benefit from on a daily basis. You give yourself so much credit without realizing how much you enjoy the comforts of modern society: internet, cell phones, modern medicine. All these things were possible because someone went to get specialized learning. Not everyone has to go to university, but we all benefit when our society grows and develops new technologies. Go live in Somalia and make your own internet and antibiotics.
Once again you are wrong.
I don’t equate privately acquired loans through mutual agreement between two parties with public infrastructure paid for by collectivism.
I’m not taking credit for fixing the roads. If I got hired by a construction crew to pave the roads maybe I could? LoL
Absolute individualism and absolute collectivism cannot exist in their own separate worlds. Both are nessesary.
As for the college loans. People’s private education funded through private means is no consequence to me. I should not have to pay for it. Bottom line.
Now I see why we’re talking past each other.
For whatever reason you’re very tied up in the legal argument, which of course no one is disputing right now. I’m talking strictly about the moral argument for supporting higher education, not the current legal framework under which it operates in the united states. The legal framework is downstream from our ethics, and what I’m trying to get to you is that a modern society requires specialization that is not tied to remuneration. Teachers get paid shit in this country, but we still need children to be educated (even if you don’t have kids, you still benefit from kids going to school because they help build the things you use every day). For whatever reason you keep ignoring (I think we know why) that you benefit EVERY DAY from the improvements modern society gives you, and that benefit comes from an educated class which unfortunately in the US is funded through private loans.
