Student loan forgiveness is being taken seriously right now by the bourgeoisie.
The Federal interest rate going near 0% has led to a massive boom in housing construction. Student loan deferment has led to many people saving up for a down payment on a house. The housing market is carrying the US economy right now.
If student loan deferment ends, this space that Capital found for expansion will disappear. There will be an immediate crisis.
Also, the effort to privatize student loans has been a failure. Betsy DeVos has been the Secretary of Education most dedicated to privatization. She killed the Perkins Loan, which has led many new students to private loans.
Although, after her reign, 92% of public student loan debt are still held by the Department of Education. It is unlikely that the Biden SoE will be more successful at speeding up the process. Capital is in crisis now.
Forgiving public debts is a method of privatization in America, where a culture of indebtedness exists. They want everyone with public student loans to take out private mortgages, owned by JPMorgan, Citigroup, etc.
I'm not saying student loan forgiveness is good or bad. It is good for me. But it serves a purpose that we should understand.
Joke's on them, forgiving my student loans would give me enough money to buy 2 shipping containers and a small plot of unincorporated land in Maine or Montana. See ya later housing market, I'm gonna go be starving and homeless before you can even touch me.
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Shipping containers make awful shelters - particularly in areas with brutal temperatures. You'd be better off using local materials, or even tents.
Or build.
Shipping containers are not the solution to housing.
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Bring an arc welder so we can cut doors and windows into them. Also maybe some barrels to catch rain water.