2/ I was just out of grad school myself and carrying my own sizable debt loan. And I was working for the federal government and aware of the program and some of its unclear provisions.
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1/ About ten years ago I was talking to a woman in a bar who was in her first year of law school. She had some concern about the size of her loans, but said that the public service forgiveness program would make it all work.https://www.wsj.com/articles/program-to-relieve-student-debt-proves-unforgiving-11557221400 …
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3/ I hinted about the risks around the forgiveness program, but this woman was very insistent about how she thought the program worked. Mindful of slipping into mansplaining, I dropped it and moved on to something else.
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4/ I mention this not as an “I told you so,” or as a defense of being a random know-it-all in a bar. For all I know that woman knew exactly what she was doing and is now one of the few who are eligible for forgiveness.
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5/ Rather, it’s just worth noting how our current culture is breeding a certain level of credulity, especially among the people who probably ought to know better. And I have to wonder how much of this is a bug and how much is a feature
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