Subject: Re: Any Body like Medicare and SS ??
bighairymike: I submit that in the public goods game, a plumber or barista with no school debt contributes more to the "public pot" than an unemployed Art History major with $100,000 of student loan debt. And the Art History major actually removes funds from the public pot when Biden forgives his student debt.

Funny that you mentioned baristas. Ted Cruz complained that Biden's plan would pay the loans of 'slacker baristas'. Upthread I mentioned 'lesbian dance theory' to see if anyone recognized that's what Lauren Boebert called 'em... one-upping Cruz by throwing in a homophobic slur.

As for the Public Goods game, a couple of distinguishing features that often pop up are anger at being made to feel foolish and the impulse toward compassion or mercy being twisted into evidence of foolishness.

I worked a gap year and summers to pay for my undergraduate degree and went to graduate school while working full-time to pay for that degree but am happy to see these student loans partially forgiven.