This is the same sort of idiotic thinking that gets people depressed about selling their stock before it skyrocketed.
You can’t predict the future. You do the best you can. Your choices mean that you didn’t get to benefit from a gift that nobody knew was coming? Might as well complain about not winning the lottery. That some people was helped doesn’t mean the others have been hurt.
I’m amazed and appalled at how common this sentiment is. So many comments here are complaining that some of these graduates will miss out on this charity because they have no debt. At the risk of violating site guidelines, what the fuck is wrong with you people?
(For the record, I went to a cheap school and was fortunate to have family support that left me with no student debt.)
You could make the same argument if he had given the money only to people without any debt as a reward for their good planning.
There are two problems with rewarding only the least responsible people. The first is that it will encourage people going into college to behave less responsibly due to the hope that their debt will be forgiven.
The second is that this gift isn't happening in a vacuum. It's happening as part of a political movement to make this sort of charity part of public policy. People don't want public policy to move forward in a way that puts the people who tried to do the right thing in the least advantageous position.
Responsible people with good planning get rewarded for it constantly. People rarely complain about it. You certainly could, and should, make the same argument about them, because the argument also applies to them.
You can’t predict the future. You do the best you can. Your choices mean that you didn’t get to benefit from a gift that nobody knew was coming? Might as well complain about not winning the lottery. That some people was helped doesn’t mean the others have been hurt.
I’m amazed and appalled at how common this sentiment is. So many comments here are complaining that some of these graduates will miss out on this charity because they have no debt. At the risk of violating site guidelines, what the fuck is wrong with you people?
(For the record, I went to a cheap school and was fortunate to have family support that left me with no student debt.)