Right wing ghouls seem to think that if you go to college and get a useful (aka high paying) degree, you should be able to pay your college debt easily. This ignores the fact that even highly paid professions like doctors have a lot of people struggling with debt due to the sheer cost of tuition over many years.
That said, under the present conditions of capitalism taking out a large loan to get a degree in something that isn't likely to pay well is basically volunteering for many years of debt slavery.
In a humane society, people should be able to study whatever they want and still be financially secure. Imagine how many fucking artists and musicians the world has missed out on because the objectively safe thing to do is get an accounting degree instead?
If you're poor, yes. People who have been hollowed out by capitalism have the fundamentalist Christian belief of "bad things are bad because God says so, and it's only God's say-so that makes something good or bad." Except god and the market are one and the same. Punishment by the market in the form of debt that you can't pay back is deserved by definition, for your hubris of trying to rise above your natural place. They don't consciously think of it in those terms, but it's absolutely the unexamined core of their beliefs.
This is is why they seem like they're getting "is and ought" confused all the time, conflating strategic decisions with moral ones, because if you derive your morality from market success, there is no discernable difference.
so it's irresponsible to go to college now?
Right wing ghouls seem to think that if you go to college and get a useful (aka high paying) degree, you should be able to pay your college debt easily. This ignores the fact that even highly paid professions like doctors have a lot of people struggling with debt due to the sheer cost of tuition over many years.
That said, under the present conditions of capitalism taking out a large loan to get a degree in something that isn't likely to pay well is basically volunteering for many years of debt slavery.
In a humane society, people should be able to study whatever they want and still be financially secure. Imagine how many fucking artists and musicians the world has missed out on because the objectively safe thing to do is get an accounting degree instead?
To them if you're poor you don't deserve education and would rather you die in one of their lithium mines or Amazon warehouses instead
If you're poor, yes. People who have been hollowed out by capitalism have the fundamentalist Christian belief of "bad things are bad because God says so, and it's only God's say-so that makes something good or bad." Except god and the market are one and the same. Punishment by the market in the form of debt that you can't pay back is deserved by definition, for your hubris of trying to rise above your natural place. They don't consciously think of it in those terms, but it's absolutely the unexamined core of their beliefs.
This is is why they seem like they're getting "is and ought" confused all the time, conflating strategic decisions with moral ones, because if you derive your morality from market success, there is no discernable difference.
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