>>512315820The people asked for it. Americans used to bitch that loans were unfair because poor people got denied when the bank reviewed their application and saw the applicant wanted $150,000 for a degree in some shit like African Studies or underwater basket weaving that had an earnings potential of $30,000 a year lol. The banks said no fucking way you're just gonna take our money and declare bankruptcy, so they refused the loan. This of course was turned into a race issue, because so many blacks are poor as shit. And a gender issue, because women go to college for retarded degrees that don't pay. And the people said the system was unfair because it favored rich white males who got approved at "disproportionate rates" due to their ability to, you know, actually pay back what they borrowed, or because they were going into a field that had promise of a high salary so the bank felt confident the loan would be paid off.
The government, making the critical mistake of trying to give the People exactly what they wanted, made it so loans couldn't be discharged. Now banks could loan money to poors for their shitty degrees with assurance the money would be paid back. Everyone who tried to warn that this would lead to poor people becoming burdened by loans they can't pay off was called racist, sexist, whatever. Joe Biden himself celebrated it as a victory because it would expand access to higher education to minorities and poors.
Anyways, the people got what they wanted. Unfortunately the people are retarded.