Pretty sure that’s mentioning privilege. I mean you literally typed the word privilege and attempted to declare the authors friend privileged.

Last time I checked baristas weren’t front line essential workers. They are not exposed “for other privileged frivolity-purchasers”. They’re exposed because they want/need the money they can earn working. Self-interest is doing the driving not selflessness.

An entity that essentially gets all of its revenue by leaching off the American people cannot help the American people any more than a thief can help you by returning five of the twenty dollars they stole from you.

Expensive as in an entity that has no money and does nothing of value to create income can only borrow money then when repayment time rolls around use the threat of violence to take money from people that earned it later down the road.

You are talking past me...

Bullshit and you know it. Tens of millions of individuals do not. Factor in the opportunity cost on their MfA dollars over time and many of those people are spending a multiple of what the typical American spends on healthcare in a lifetime.

Other countries have managed to convince higher income citizens to take the L for the collective. MfA requires some brilliant selling to convince people to shoulder that financial burden and its chief spokesperson has the charisma and people skills of a rock. Somehow team MfA skipped the selling part of the process,…

“If the country is trying to eliminate the virus, why not just make all testing free?”

If you don’t have expensive debt to deal with invest your check.

Kinda like when idiots claim they didn’t understand that borrowing money for school implies that you will to pay it back later.

It is not a belief that no one has an obligation to look out for anyone else. It’s a fact. No one owes anyone else anything. Starting anywhere else puts people on the defensive.

I graduated with 25k in debt which adjusted for inflation is 31k in 2020 dollars. That’s all of 1k less than the average indebtedness for a 2019 graduate.

I’d rather you keep your money in your pocket so you can make decisions on how it can best impact your life.

Bail outs aren’t good policy. They’re the exact opposite of good policy. They encourage/reward risky behavior because people come to believe that “the government” will fix it in the end. If it is absurd to give corporations bailouts (read: low/no cost loans), and it is, then it is even more absurd to start by doing…

There’s no equitable solution that doesn’t include sending out refund checks to everyone that paid off their debt on their own and no one seems to be acknowledging that debt cancellation is a giant screw you to the people that made good on their obligation.

You cannot have any service as a human right because the government does not have some strategic reserve of said service to hand out. It has to convince private citizens to provide that service. If they are unwilling to do so the government’s only recourse is deciding whose rights it will violate. Either the person…

Remember that the issue is class and not race.

So instead of normal rent to own home ownership where you agree to rent a home from the bank for 15-30 years before you get to own it you rent to rent to own where you rent from some person/company for some period prior to making arrangements to continue to rent from a bank for another 15-30 years?

The person with ten dollars of liability and the person with ten thousand dollars of liability are both net tax payers but there’s a world of difference between them.

If I’m concerned about not getting a dime out of Social Security my go-to candidate is the one that’s going to let me cut my losses and take my chances on my own. It’s not the candidate that wants even more money from me.