bishbosh @ bishbosh @lemm.ee

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The second sentence doesn't only apply to folks going into the medical field, and I would say a lot of jobs help people.

Do you really think regular people, who go into debt just ~40k based on what the article states, should also be comp’ing that other case with perks/debt forgiveness?

Yes.

It’s just that a lot of the articles around the subject seem very heavily skewed by political bias

I think this is why I am not super interested in engaging with the particulars of your reply. Because you're right, there is selection and political bias in this article. But not in the direction you think. Because the article completely omits the culture pressures that started the issues of student loans. That for many it was seen as the only path out of poverty, and wanting to foster that while still allowing markets to drive everything in the country, the government decided the loans was the correct solution. Since these were 18 year olds getting goods that could not be returned, the only market solution to that was make the loans not discharged on bankruptcy.

Once the costs were abstracted into the future, the tuition start to quickly rise, and with government backing the student loans, the loans rise with them. Since schools are now getting an order of magnitude more from each student they lure in, they heavily push the idea that you will be flipping burgers for minimum wage unless you have a degree, reframing university as not a place of higher learning for those with exceptional interest, to the necessary step after high school. This taking root devalues all degrees, but 4 year degrees in particular, leading to a drop in the salaries expectations of the professional class with 4 year degrees.

With this market driven strategy giving rise to these new problems, income driven payment plans become much more common, and with those being cut off, suddenly the 1.6 trillion dollar debt bubble in the US starts to become realized. Which is what this article is touching on from a more personal level.

All of that being said, reaching for criminal defense lawyers as your example of a morally abhorrent and greedy career track says much more about your bootlicking than anything. If you had a worthwhile conception of the problem and reality of it, you would have picked one of the much better examples.

Then the question becomes who will the cops side with.

No need to explain "What is ML/AI" every time.

Oh you absolute goon. No one wants to hear your half baked techno jargon explanation of your 'prompt engineering job' they are trying to be nice and get to know you...

Wait, some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses? How is this the first I am hearing about this??

I'd Like to See Ol Donny Trump Wriggle His Way Out of THIS Jam!

Why have people not revolted?

Our cops will fucking kill us

400k is not uncommon for medical school debt. Blaming it on the ~18 year old that just wanted to get a decent job helping people is bootlicker talk.

If there are issues like this, sounds like a good goal for a country that wants to divest from US tech companies.

What a rude thing to say, they are so very well versed and so very knowledgeable, they learned it in school today.

How very Malthusian of you to think killing poor people lowers poverty.

Are you comparing the political actions of the only ostensibly anti-fascist party in the US to the leftist infighting of posters online? Try organizing with leftists outside and you might be able to see the difference.

Oh see you said it alienated voters, plural.

What a ridiculous take.

Seeing liberal's repeatedly stumble in stopping anyone to the right, but having the fangs come out the moment they need to protect themselves from the left really shows that it's not failure, it's refusal.

Everyone blaming voters seems to forget that outcomes are the goal here. You can say what voters 'ought' do until you're blue in the face. But the reality is that if we want the outcome of defeating fascism, we have been shown on multiple occasions that simply not being a rapist traitor isn't enough. When the answer to cries from the voter base is, 'these are your options so shut up', they don't leave their couch.

So do you want to scold or do you want outcomes? Because scolding has repeatedly not worked to stop fascism.

Does earth have inertial dampeners??

I'm sure this time it will work 🫠

Fair, I've never used Briar, so I was mostly responding to the others. I complete agree though, the fact that there are so many is super frustrating.

I think it has tor routing by default, so different in that way?

Still remember the decoder podcast where the CEO was asked, would you remove an article that says "we should deport all brown people", and he danced around how he wouldn't get into specifics of moderation.

Just your standard 'Free speech absoluteism'