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Of course, that’s not how it works in real life.

If mooching is so pleasurable why isn’t everyone doing it?

Because being poor in the US is really hard. Getting government benefits in the US is really hard. And the way a lot of government benefits are structured, with a whole bunch of cliffs because of ridiculous means testing, it’s extremely difficult to get out of a cycle of dependence on govt benefits.

It’s hilarious seeing people, whose college education was almost entirely covered by the government (you could pay your college education working part time at your local burger place because it was so heavily subsidized, and that’s not even including the massive percentage of people who got free education from the govt because they were enlisted in a variety of wars), complaining about the fact that the govt may forgive student loans that students take decades to pay despite being in the top 10-20% of income brackets.

And frankly, if these people were really concerned about those who worked hard and paid off loans being chumps, as opposed to opposing any help for anyone who is not in the top 0.1% (remember that multi trillion tax cut passed not even half a decade ago?), maybe they would propose something else that compensated for the massive decrease in educational support, massive increase in college prices, and the massive increase in the need for a college degree to get a job, by proposing something like tax credits for whatever tuition you paid over the last several years. So, for example, you get tax credits worth 10-(2022-tuition year)0.8tuition, so tax credits for the last 10’years of tuition, at 80% last year, and then reducing linearly till it drops to 0 for tuition paid more than 10 years ago.

Or adjust it some other way that makes sense.