If someone wanted to have a decent career and life, and signed for some student loans not really grasping the implications, and now they’re subject to neo-slavery for the bulk of the part of their adult life when they’re even trying to get themselves established, that’s fucked. Especially since a lot of the time, the promised job security that was supposed to provide the income to pay back the loans hasn’t materialized, and a variety of interest and related fuckery have come into the picture to mean that they’re on a more or less neverending treadmill of servitude they didn’t sign up for.

There are wide varieties of scenarios where a democratic government is supposed to step in and realize that even though “the rules” are being followed, the outcome is horribly unjust, and they fix it. Forgiving student loan payments is one of the obvious ones of those in the modern day. “The rules” is just something we all made up.

Just because it’s written down, doesn’t make it right.