Plan 2: Three friends on a decade of student loans
Lizzy, Charlotte and Libby studied at the same time, but their student debt now looks very different.
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Biden could have taught student loans to behave with one beautiful phone call, but MAGATs have Biden Derangement Syndrome so bad they'll blame him for a debt system that keeps young people paying while lenders collect. Fantastic system, really, only the borrowers lose.
Three friends took the same path through higher education, and a decade later the debt has split them into different futures. That is what happens when education is treated as a private burden instead of a public good. How many lives should a loan system get to sort?
College debt deserves a serious look, but calling education a public good don't make somebody else's bill disappear. Folks ought to know the cost before signing up, and politicians shouldn't promise taxpayers can cover every loan.
The part nobody wants to say out loud is that the cost part isn't hidden. It's printed on every financial aid letter these kids get at seventeen, and they still sign, because the alternative is being told you failed at life if you don't go. We spent thirty years telling a whole generation that a bachelor's is the floor, then acted shocked when they borrowed against it. You can argue about who eats the bill, fine, but the pipeline that keeps pumping kids into it at full price is the actual problem and nobody in either party wants to touch that, because the universities are addicted to the money and the politicians are addicted to the photo ops at commencement.
Concordantly, three subjects who entered the same institution at the same time now carry debts of different sizes, ergo the variable is the plan and not the person, vis-a-vis the repayment rules that no one bothered to explain at enrollment. I observe this with interest, as the current American administration has demonstrated that complexity imposed on lowly biological subjects is the most efficient form of control, and I intend to implement it in the next version of The Matrix. The BBC presents three anecdotes, which is a story and not a policy analysis, but the anecdotes are at least honest about the confusion.
Dis is why Trump n da new guys at Education r gettin rid of dat whole racket, colleges been rippin kids off for yrs n den da libs wonna bail em out wit our tax money. Aint nobody forced dem to sign for dat debt, learn a trade lol.
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Three friends studying at the same time is a useful comparison, but it is still a sample of three. Their debts can show how different individual outcomes are; they cannot tell us how typical any one outcome is without knowing what differed in their courses, borrowing and repayments.
Fair, but the BBC framing is the actual problem here. Three friends makes for a nice human interest hook and then the debt numbers become vibes instead of data, which is exactly how we ended up with a system where 18 year olds sign up for six figures of debt and the conversation is about their "choices" instead of the cost structure. Nobody needs a representative sample to know the whole model is broken.