It's interesting, because Warren's suspicion before being part of team doing groundbreaking field work on bankruptcy was that folks were like this guy's friend, living high on the hog and abusing bankruptcy to get out of their obligations.
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But they found that people were racking up so much consumer debt because they simply couldn't afford to live, and lenient bankruptcy law was keeping them from getting crushed. It was the turning point in her right-to-left journey.
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Admiration for the hard-working honor and grit that drove this guy to free his kid from debt is one of her fundamental instincts. The injustice she wants to end is saddling folks with undischargeable debt to get the level education our economy demands to make a decent living.
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She wants to lift for others the burden this guy had to bear to finance something she thinks ought to be publicly provided, like high school. It's wrong that he had to bear it, and virtuous that he did. He's a victim who did the right thing. She doesn't want to fight him.
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And it's just impossible to avoid that it sucks like hell to put yourself through the wringer paying off a debt just before others in the same situation are let off the hook, while you aren't made whole. It plainly isn't fair.
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But it's an injustice practically necessitated by an effort to remove the larger injustice he never should have been made to suffer. So many things are like that. E.g., It's not fair that there wasn't a place in medical school for my mom, but there was for her daughters.
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But, Will, can’t one make the exact same argument about any social reform/expansion of the social safety net/welfare state? Taken to its extreme, isn’t this an argument against ever expanding government provisions?
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Or an argument against any positive change that affects future generations. “I had to work in the mines at age six, why not your kid?”
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I am always baffled by this line of argument. "We adopted a policy that turns out to have screwed a bunch of people, but because I am one of them, we can never change it."
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I'd go even more broadly - it appears to me to imply you can never improve policy or its effects, because how would that be fair to the people before then?
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