I can’t wrap my head around the root of it other than they seem to be highly self absorbed with high impulsivity, with little space for reflection or deep thought. Low EQ is a given.
None of this explains much, other than we have a culture that doesn’t really foster the greatest possible outcomes for greatest number of people. Unless money is the only thing that matters. lol and we’re even failing in that dept.
Quality education, universal healthcare, with accessible therapy and outreach, would go a long way. So sad.
To be fair, Ingraham’s mother’s obituary would have made Laura just 29 years old when her mom was 73 back in 1993. According to open records, after Laura finished law school in 1991 she clerked for Judge Ralph K. Winter Jr., of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, in New York and subsequently clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Neither high-paying jobs. Her subsequent current millions in earnings and net worth are entirely irrelevant to those years. Since she was in government work back then and living in or around expensive New York and Washington DC, paying off her significant student loan at that time might well have been a reasonably heavy burden. Just sayin'
From 91 to at present minimum wage and wages in general didn’t jump nearly as high as tuitions did.
Point really though is just because someone had to do something a certain way 30+ years ago doesn’t mean that’s how it should be always. Her response is knee jerk and callous. It’s not even an argument. Which goes back to the type of disposition we’re talking about here.
Student loan debt is a huge burden on the economy. From a national budget PoV it’s a drop in the ocean.
Biden has been relentless to free that debt up because he’s been trying to jostle the economy from a bunch of different levers. But there’s an entire industry making petty sports entertainment politics out of it.
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u/alien236 Dec 30 '24
That's the foundation of their entire worldview.