Do you consider yourself more left or right wing?

[Chrkeller]

sc94597 said:

Chrkeller said:

Doesn't seem feasible to screen every single person.  Extreme example, but Bronny James doesn't need help... so it can't be black/white.  How do you implement who needs help and who simply made bad decisions?  I have family/friends in the same income bracket as me, but their kids are taking out loans.  Do their kids get help?  If so, why did I bother to do the right thing?  On paper I get your point, I just don't think it works in reality.  

Yet admissions staff are able to do this more or less by including many different metrics of SES. Until last year, this did include race, but it also included things like educational attainment of one's parents, familial income, zip-code/regional inequalities, etc. All of these can be used together to reliably predict which opportunities an individual had with some degree of precision. 

Why did you bother to do the right thing in our actual reality? You did it didn't you, even though another family's kids got loans/grants? Doesn't that derail your argument that this demotivates you when you actually did the action you said you'd be dissuaded to do when a condition (that actually exists in our real world) was met? 

And regardless, again the role of society should be to maximize capacities of all individuals. If the effect of providing opportunities to the children of the mass of the population that "didn't do the right thing" (let's assume that is an accurate assessment) does this, and exceeds the negative effects you're suggesting exist from it, then it should still be done because the society and the individuals within it are better off for it. 

If loan forgiveness happens, I'm buying a boat and having society pay for their college.