Subj : Alexandria's Money
To   : Lee Lofaso
From : Richard Falken
Date : Mon Sep 16 2019 07:39:43

  Re: Alexandria's Money
  By: Lee Lofaso to aaron thomas on Sat Sep 14 2019 08:21 pm

 > Why should those who provide loans so as to make exorbitant
 > profits they do not deserve from those who are trying to
 > learn the skills they need in order to become gainfully employed?

Loan provider are actually working. They put people who
needs money in touch with people who is willing to lend
money. It is just that the whole process is not easily
apparent. You put your money in a savings plan. The bank
gives that money to somebody who asks for a loan. Do you
see how it works?

 > Young people have a hard enough time finding a job, much less
 > paying for a new car, a starter home, and other necessities.
 > Why saddle them with debt that would take them thirty years to
 > pay (assuming they can repay it at all)?

People does not saddle other people with debt. People
get indebted on their own will. If you put the saddle on
it is not the fault of the loan provider.

If you don't feel like coping with the debt don't take
it. There are lots of things other than college you can
do with your life.

> Face it.  Everything ought to be free.

No such a thing can ever exist. I dare you to prove me
wrong. Start by getting my second novel translated to
English for free at proffessional quality (if you don't
speaką Spanis hyou may learn from a free source or
outsource the task to somebody who will do it for free)

Everything ought to be free, so translations of books
ought to be free. It is gonna take three months of work
but you will do it for free because hakuna matata.

Now you may say that you meant that everything ought to
be provided by the government, which is entirely
different than "everything ought to be free". Two
reasons why such a thing will fail:

1) If the government becomes the sole provider, it
becomes a monopoly. A Monopoly on education is as bad
as a Monopoly on electric power and Internet Services
for the same reasons. You may counter by telling me
that "the people" controls the government and thus is
not likely to abuse its power over consumers. I will
argue there is no sustainable evidence of that.

2) For the government to be able to provide things
for free, somebody must provide for the government.
Since the government is giving stuff away asking
nothing in return, then I have no reason to work for
the government. Or worse yet, for anybody. The only
thing the government can do is to take your stuff
away and give it to you once again. You have an
apple. The government takes your apple away, now it
gives it back to you. You eat the apple. You ask
for another apple. The government takes an apple from
Jack and you eat it. You  ask for another apple.
There are no more apples because nobody has made them
(why would they make apples if the government would take
them away with no compensation?) You end up pimping
your daughter in order to be able to buy apples
at the black market.
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