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MeowZedong
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That very much sounds like a moment for self-reflection.
Therefore they can continue to extract more from people than before. When you default, the amount owed increases significantly (doubles?).
This means more people are stuck with high payments and are required to work to continue to survive, less people getting retirement or other benefits, a larger workforce that is essentially captive to their debt and can be more easily manipulated because they are worried about making ends meet more than other things.
I see plenty of benefits for capitalists in a wide variety of industries if more people are beholden to more student debt.
There are entire industries that profit from people being imprisoned. The more people incarcerated in a location, the more that location can charge.
All other things aside, there is very much a profit motive.
Or join an instance they don't like and they curate themselves for you. :)
Join a different instance, there are ones that are more curated for different regions in the world. Lemmy.world is very US centric and essentially a carbon cut-out of reddit. Lots of redditors migrate there and try to maintain that type of culture on the instance, so they also got many of the most toxic complainers condensed from mass reddit exoduses.
The fediverse is meant to be explored and it may take you a month or two to find where you like best.
It's not clear that this affected the decision to drop the bombs let alone the sole reasoning. Frankly, there was little justifiable strategic argument for use of them at that point in the war aside from as a form of intimidation against the Soviet Union. More likely the US would have dropped the bombs regardless and it was used as a justification after the fact: "the Japanese were barbaric, so this justifies our barbarism!"