For me, the forbearance period was a taste of what cancellation would feel like. The conversation around student loans, I think, focuses too much on the individual, and if that one person is going to be able to pay the debt they signed up for. But it’s an economic problem, not a personal one.
The perfect encapsulation of why people with student loans shouldn’t get any special treatment.
The forbearance should’ve given her a taste of what paying off her loans would feel like, not what forcing everyone else to pay for her decisions would feel like.