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This wonderful egalitarian man, like billions of other egalitarians, wants no rich and no poor. This means a society that is not based on money and in which there are no financial debts. Go here to see 500+ photos of more wonderful egalitarians in my zip code.
The nerdstash.com reports on an X post by U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren about the unfairness of huge student loan debts and about the hostile response of some to her post. I am using this incident to express the egalitarian view on student loan dept and who should repay it.
Here’s the first paragraph in the reported story:
Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts posted on X that the 2026 Love Island winner is directing her share of the $100,000 prize toward student loans, stating that people should not have to win a reality show to escape such debt. The post has drawn widespread online attention, with numerous commenters responding by stressing personal responsibility and arguing that borrowers, not taxpayers, should repay the loans.
My egalitarian take is this:
Society should be based on the economic principle, “From each according to reasonable ability, to each according to need or reasonable desire, with scarce things equitably rationed according to need.” What is “reasonable” or not is determined by the local assembly of egalitarians as described here.
Here’s how this relates to student loans.
A student, by the fact that they are studying and learning and doing the work to further their education, is contributing reasonably according to ability.
Because the student is contributing reasonably according to ability, they have the right to take for free from the economy what they need or reasonably desire with scarce things equitably rationed according to need.
End of story.
Note that in this description of things money was not ever mentioned. There was no student loan and no student loan to be paid back.
Tell me, who in this version of things is being treated unfairly?
The general public is benefiting by living in a society in which there are people getting an education who will use that education to contribute reasonably according to ability. The general public is not taxed to pay for any student loan. Their only obligation is to contribute reasonably according to ability.1
The professors and other workers at the college or university, like the students, are contributing reasonably according to ability and in return get to take for free from the economy what they need or reasonably desire.
The economy is very productive (as it was in such an economy in revolutionary Spain in 1936-9) because people have to contribute reasonably according to ability in order to get what they need or reasonably desire; it is NOT a freeloader-friendly kind of economy!
Oh, there is a category of people who will no doubt be pissed if this is how the economy is operated. People who want to be richer than others would indeed be pissed. So what? Let them be pissed.
which in some cases means zero work, for example children and the elderly and people who for some reason cannot do any useful work, and includes students and apprentices learning stuff and people taking care of others, and so on, but does NOT include freeloaders who can but refuse to contribute reasonably according to ability.
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