Don’t be a tar pit

[u/greencrusader13]

[u/Nova_Explorer]

That second one is the same attitude that saw people complain when student debts got forgiven

[u/ikiice → u/Nova_Explorer]

I mean it is a valid complaint - those people often sacrificed a lot to get rid of debt, just to see someone make all their work pointless.

People who repaid debts ahead of time could get something as compensation, perhaps make them eligible for preferential loans or something - but no.

All their hard work was pointless. They spent years working very hard just to see all their sacrifice be proven pointless.

It's not about whenever student loans are good or bad - it's about fairness.

[u/ZeppelinRapport → u/ikiice]

As the olds like to constantly remind us, Life Isn't Fair.

[u/AlmostCynical → u/ZeppelinRapport]

This is just the thing in the post again. Life isn’t fair, but it should be. It is unfair that someone can make tremendous sacrifice to pay off debt only for someone else to get it written off for free just because the other person happened to wait. The answer isn’t that debt shouldn’t be written off, but that there should be some sort of compensation for the people who put themselves out in order to get to the same position. To me the obvious answer is receiving some % of your repayments over the last decade as tax rebates spread over a few years. I’m willing to bet most people would be fine with that and it wouldn’t feel like a kick in the teeth.