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Pristine_Tension8399 t1_jar14br wrote

I feel that canceling student loans is not a good play. What happens to kids going to school next year? School isn’t getting cheaper so what happens with their loans? The debt just gets propagated to the next generation. I think making all loans being paid in full at 0% interest is the way to go. This will provide a way forward for future generations and help those currently struggling with their loans. It will put an end to the debt cycle for those people that have paid more than they borrowed but haven’t made a dent on their loans due to interest. This will be unpopular for the far left and the far right, so it’s a reasonable compromise that would most likely pass.

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Pressed_Thumb t1_jaqm5gt wrote

What do you mean you say a profession is valued less? Do you want to suggest that it's done deliberately by someone or something?

The value of each profession is always a reflection of the market, that is, supply and demand. The employee always wants to be paid more and the employer always wants to pay as little as possible (regardless of the employee's gender).

If women were universally valued less as employees, that would just create a massive opportunity for companies hiring only women to have margins greater than their competitors. In a short time, many other companies would seize the same opportunity, increasing the demand for women's labor and thus normalizing the wages across gender.

My speculative take on this is that the biological differences between genders reflect on their average personality traits, making them choose jobs differently.

For being more competitive, men tend to pursue high-income careers and positions. Also, men have a predilection for things instead of people, which is a driver for choosing STEM careers. On the other hand, women gravitate more toward the humanities and don't focus so much on increasing their income. Of course there are plenty of exceptions, but on average, this seems to be the case.

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AftyOfTheUK t1_jaq6e7g wrote

>You can’t be serious, that you think that the US has more differences than a whole continent made out of twice as many people living in 50 countries

You keep saying "countries" like it matters, like it's different to a "state" in any way other than legal. In the US states have their own laws, and are part of the federal US which has overbearing laws. In the EU, countries have their own laws and are part of the federal EU, which has overbearing laws.

Take this as an example - the Scandinavian countries are Denmark, Finland and Sweden. The West Coast states are California, Seattle and Oregon.

I'll tell you now that there is MASSIVELY more cultural diversity in those three US states than there is in the Scandinavian countries.

The differences between California and Mississipi, for example, are very large, just like the differences between France and Bulgaria.

You seem to be assuming that Europe has far more differences than the US, but you don't seem to state why. They all (well, most) have different languages, sure - but CULTURALLY they are very close together. And from a legal point of view and from a tax point of view, there is a LOT of congruence in Europe that does not exist in the US.

>I don’t even know why all people from the US really want to believe that their state is sooo different from the others

California -> Mississipi is truly, unbelievable different. California is about as good as it gets in the modern world, Mississipi is pretty much third world.

>the US, and it’s all more or less the same, the difference are minimal against differences between whole countries.

I'm sorry, I just can't agree with this. I've lived in the UK, the US, France and spent time working in Eastern Europe. Financially, culturally, legally there is a lot of uniformity across the EU.

I wouldn't want to say which (EU or US) has more disparity - but once you ignore language, those differences are very comparable.

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