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Is canceling student loan debt considered stealing? (discuss.online)

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I have an economics teacher that made this claim in class yesterday. I wanted to know other people’s thoughts about it.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

I haven't taken an econ class in 8-9 years but I remember it saying there's no such thing as a free lunch. Someone has to pay for it. And when you frame things in that light, then yes I could see how an econ teacher would call that stealing.

But econ is a weird science, it's explaining human behaviors and people are weird.