Panel #3 reminds me of an important historical fact.

Susan B. Anthony died in 1906, and the 19th Amendment was ratified in 1920.

The most well-known suffragette, who worked for equality and civil rights her entire life, did not live to see her life's work realized.

Progress can be slow, but don't let that discourage you. We work to better the world for future generations, not just for ourselves.

My grandpa died from cancer, and now you want to cure cancer?! That’s not fair to everyone who’s died from it!

Except boomers didn't even pay for college, and if they did, it was WAY fucking cheaper than it is now

I can at least afford to pay off my college debt.

If they forgave everyone's debt but mine, I would still be cool with that.

I just don't want the cost of college to keep increasing. It's bullshit how they capitalized on the student loans to begin with and I hold them significantly responsible for the shape of acadamia, in America today.

I mean the student loans could be reimbursed for those who closed 'em in, say, last 20 years? This way the flattop man don't need to be angry anymore!

This comic is about conservatism.

All the analogies are bad. You should be able to fund the studies of future generations without retroactively changing rules that applied to past generations. The correct analogy would be: why do you pay the guy who didn’t work last weekend retroactively for those days they didn’t work, if I was actually working: now we both made the same money and I worked 2 extra days for it which is unfair.

Disclaimer: my education was at no cost to me and I never had student debt, I have no skin in the game. The conversation should be about how we help tomorrow’s students, not about giving money to an arbitrary set of yesterday students.

Half of the country doesn't go to college, many because they can't afford to, and forgiving this batch of student loan debt doesn't fix the problem or hand down consequences to the universities that see students as a cash grab rather than the next generation to educate. It's just a terrible short sighted solution that only helps a fraction of people and angers an even larger fraction of people. A more pragmatic short term solution is to let the recipients be able to declare bankruptcy and be done with it, but that's going to be even less popular because then everyone involved deals with their share of the consequences. Everyone would rather get "free" money.

Man. I wish this wasn't so fucking accurate.

damn

Those cavemen have excellent tailors, ahead of their time.

Somewhat related, but if you haven't seen Contrapoints' incredible video essay "Envy"... Set aside a few hours and watch it.

Except that Thrug will also stop eating raw guts and the guy who paid off his loans will benefit little from debt cancellation. Same with women voting. Not great examples.