I only teach for pay. I just wanted to let you know, if you don’t already, that your opinion here is immoral and shitty.

Don’t bother responding to him- this is another iteration of Tomatoface.

It is stupid, who you vote for doesn’t matter, and your comment was extremely misogynistic.

You win stupidest comment of the day. Congrats!

Please tell me that you are fully aware of how stupid you sound.

I was hoping for something with sharper edges.

‘93 wasn’t even that long ago really. Shocking how much it has skyrocketed since then. 

Of course it’s a personal choice - no one is forcing 18-year old college freshmen to be English majors at gunpoint. But when people demean liberal arts degrees it sends the message that studying history, language, arts etc. at a level past high school has a low societal value, with which I strongly disagree (and I was…

you’d think they’d like it because not having to pay student loans and having cheap childcare would get their Millennial kids to finally pop out some grandkids so Boomers would have something to do other than watch Fox News and bitch about how the world doesn’t think they’re cool anymore.

I was about to say “This plan gives you Boomer dicks grandkids, you should all be on board.”

It’s kind of weird that older voters are upset over the idea of student loan forgiveness. More and more of them are being saddled with student loan debt after their kids default:

“But it’s supported systemically by those who profit off of it”

“Much of higher education is not worth the cost”

Calling degrees “worthless” just because they don’t necessarily translate to a high-income position post-college is so, so idiotic. 

It is completely bananas how much we pay for college. I went to community college for the first 2 years of undergrad in the late 90's/early aughts and thankfully that cost me less about $1,000 a semester. I could barely afford that. I had to work full time to pay tuition and rent but I lived in a relatively low cost…

Right? My not being able to pay off my Master’s has nothing to do with working at Starbucks and everything to do with being told I need to get this degree in order to teach and then turning around and saying, you got the degree, but now we won’t hire you because you have experience and education that’s too costly.

1993 was the last year an undergraduate could pay a year of tuition through a summer time minimum wage job.

“i have a worthless liberal arts degree and this minimum wage barista job means i can’t afford to pay it back” feels like someone who never took their obligation seriously to begin with - they did not plan for how to pay it back.

What a shitty take. 

People who couch it as “free stuff” are peak disingenuous and intellectually lazy.