Aoc has a message for americans who already paid off their student loans. We can support things. We don't directly benefit from wrong. Wrongo rongowrongorongo.

You might think she is right-o, but let me explain to you why your opinion is wrong. Well, it goes like this. First of all, okay, that's just a good statement. We can support things we won't directly benefit from.

I i understand that i just don't think that this particular sentence is fairly descriptive of paying off student loans, the government paying it off or government forgiveness or any of that stuff before you like really freak out. I understand the sentiment, but i think it is woefully wrong for a couple reasons. I think we're looking at the wrong culprit here. I think it is insane that we are taking, especially in the u.s 16 and 17 year olds, people whose brains aren't even formed yet and they're like hey.

Do you want six figures in debt and then those unformed brains are like uh yeah? I feel like there's quite a bit of societal pressure and cultural pressure that i'm supposed to go to this thing called college. So i'm just gon na do it because everyone's doing it and i can't even conceptualize what a hundred thousand dollars in debt is so sure sign me up. That seems illegal to put a burden, a financial burden that there's no way they can possibly understand it. There's no way, i have an issue with that: the rising cost of college in the us from 1980 to 2020 there's been over a thousand percent increase in the cost of college.

We already listed one problem: why are we getting young kids to sign up for debt that there's no way they can conceptualize? The next problem is: why is it so expensive to begin with a thousand percent inflation - a thousand percent in four decades? How is this legal? There's no way that makes sense in terms of like okay. Is that a good risk reward? Should you do it for the payment, as i'm about to explain? No, it doesn't make sense. Also look at this. This is just one part of college in the orange line here we have textbooks inflation and this is from about like 1980.

Once again, so there's inflation, here's how much just a part of colleges once again college is one of the most inflated ridiculous things you can possibly do, engage it and then the fair question is like okay, it's inflating, but is the juice worth the squeeze? Well, i have a couple more metrics for you here. The average college graduate salary in 2022 is 55. 000.. Okay! Well, that's the number! Well, let's see what the average debt is.

The average debt is 30 000., then at first you're like well, if you're, making 55 and you're trying to pay 30 well, remember you have to pay taxes on 55, so you're probably going to lose 20 to 30 percent and remember there is interest and this for A lot of people can end up becoming compound interest. I know many people who end up taking - let's just use this number 30 000 in terms of debt, and then they end up having to pay back on top of that just in interest another 30.. So inherently they can be doubling it up they or they could be more than 2xing it. So all of a sudden you're talking about a financial burden that is continually growing, like a monstrosity that you can't get out from under because remember in the u.s - and this is something because of sallie mae and nixon that it's one of the few debts that even If you declare bankruptcy, you can't get out from under, like even if you declare bankruptcy that debt is still looming over your head and once again you have to talk to sally may and richard nixon about that.

One mathematically is very much a losing game. So, if we're talking about the losing game to me, this is not understanding the game. This is not really a reasonable solution to the said game. This is, in my opinion, putting a band-aid over a gunshot wound.

Really what it is is it's hey millennials. I know you're screwed with debt right now and maybe some of the older gen z. Let me say something that would just help you, because i'm basically trying to buy your votes. This is not a real political solution at all.

This is not actually a solution to anything, that's going on like we need to fix society and culture's opinion on college. We need to look into colleges of why the prices are so incredibly inflated, but just trying to fix it at the end of saying. Oh, no. No like, let's not worry about all that i'll just campaign on one topic of hey, i'm gon na help you with it please vote for me: it's basically trying to buy votes and then, even if we circle back to this statement, we can support things.

We don't directly benefit from that is too much of a a simpleton's viewpoint on this. It very much is because the taxpayers are paying for it. So if you pay taxes, i feel like you could fairly say hang on. A second wait.

Is that fair for my money to go here to a system that, like okay great, you might want to use my money this time around? But imagine that, like give me your money because i'm going to try to battle something. But that's the thing i'm trying to battle: i'm actually not going to fix it. I'm just going to come in on the very final lap and try to do some patchwork to make it like less horrific. I'm in the personal situation, where i worked my ass off to pay my own student debt.

Am i going to be salty that just because i worked it off and i made life decisions where i missed out on vacations, i missed out on buying that new car. I miss out on a lot because i knew i had dead over my head. Hell yeah, i'm gon na be salty, and then i can only imagine there's other people in this situation where maybe growing up as a parent. You chose to forego certain things because you knew you were trying to pay for your kids college and then there's other people who maybe didn't make those decisions and they're like yeah, whatever like we'll just take out loans and then all of a sudden.

It is very fair and like i think this is a thing. That's not discussed enough, because people are afraid of like okay, like yeah. We could support things like that. I'll say it.

Why would you not be salty hell yeah? I would be salty and i think, there's a lot of people who would justifiably be angry about the situation be like whoa. I made a lot of sacrifices in my life that maybe other people didn't and they were just always enjoying it, and then it worked out in their end and then my final thing to wrap this one up. I understand where they're going with it, but i don't know if they actually care about it. I don't think they actually care about improving the higher education system within the us.

I think they're essentially trying to buy votes for example. Why are we picking student loans like? Why is it this one, and the answer is because it's a pretty large voting block, that's going to be around voting for quite a while, like why? Not if we're just going to forgive something and pay off that bill, why not forgive something like medical debt? I think there's a lot of ways to look into it, but the motives of it, i think, are highly suspect and whatever. Maybe you don't care about the motives, maybe you care about like how it all settles at the end of the day and that's fair, that's completely fair, but i also just think the way that it's being portrayed to the public. It's not really straight up, i'm just very sick and tired of the contorted view and arguments that politicians, time and time again try to shove down our throat.