I, like many and hopefully some of y’all, stopped paying my student loans during Covid and never restarted paying because we’re supposed to have gotten relief from this debt that should’ve never existed in the first place. Now we have Trump coming back which kills the possibility of debt relief. So should I start repaying so I don’t get my wages garnished? Or do we think the government is going to be too inefficient to come after it?

Edit: At one point when I heard that it was the only way to get forgiveness, I moved all my debt from a third party to being a government loan. Does that change anything?

  • JeSuisUnHombre@lemm.eeOP
    71·
    28 days ago

    Why should we be accepting shitty predatory practices? We regularly protect people from the decisions they’re not adequately prepared for, as I think we should.

    • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      33·
      28 days ago

      You have vitally missed my point. I’m not arguing that it’s something we should be happy about or not trying to change, just that it is something that is.

      Unfortunately, we are required to exist in the world that is, rather than the world that should be. You have to survive in reality to be able to make changes to it.

      You’re more than welcome to call up your loan provider and tell them you don’t accept the terms you already signed up for. Let us all know how that goes.

      • JeSuisUnHombre@lemm.eeOP
        41·
        28 days ago

        The more people who don’t pay the harder it’d be for them to enforce it. How does accepting the situation now help me change the situation for the future?

        • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          41·
          27 days ago

          By keeping the bank from bankrupting you and garnishing your wages. The bank will happily take money from your accounts without your consent when the government comes asking for it. They will also take money from any accounts you may be cosigned on (my parents got so late on bills that the bank drained my account when I was a minor living with them, and there is no legal recourse for this).

          Pretty hard to effect change when you can’t buy food because the government came by and took all your money out from under you.

          Look. You’ve been provided advice towards what options are available to you. If you choose not to take that advice and to make this the hill you choose to die on, the government and the bank won’t hesitate to assist you with the choice to ruin your life over this.

          Feel free to debate philosophy with the bank and the government. I’m out.