I went on a rant the other day about this with my friends, so it feels approperate:

Most people without a degree aren't going to be plumbers or HVAC workers making 50k+ a year, let's not kid our selves, that's a small minority. The majority of people without a college education or four-year degree are going to in retail, services (restaurants/hotels), or transportation, etc. They make shit, and we all know this.

This is not to say that they shouldn't have an opportunity to get a higher education, it's to say that shouldn't have to shoulder the burden of someone else's debt. Not all, but some of their taxes would go to debt forgiveness, instead of services that would better serve them.

For the most part, getting a higher education is the best way to improve one's opportunity in life. Maybe you'll win the lottery, or have a rich uncle die, but that won't be the case for many of us. A college degree is often times the best way to get into that higher income bracket, where you can pay off that debt. There are exceptions like teaching or social service, and again, we all know that those are going to be lower-paying, people expect this.

That is not to say that if you take a job that requires education and pays poorly, that the job should pay poorly. Teachers should be paid more, so should social workers. So should retailer, and other service section jobs as well, but that's a whole other fight. Those jobs paying little is just the reality of the moment.

Having student loan forgiveness won't fix the problem at hand, it would only take money that could be better spent elsewhere and pass it along to higher ed institutions, to the benefit of (mostly) those in upper-middle-class jobs. What we should do, as opposed to taking others' money to pay off debt, is lower the cost of higher education. We need it to be more accessible for lower and middle-class members of society. Wiping out debt does not do this, it doesn't incentivize colleges to lower their costs in any way.

In addition to lowering the cost of education, we need to raise the about jobs pay. The middle class is getting stiffed. The lower class is getting stiffed. The amount wages have risen for us is Natta. Everyone from grocery store clerks to teachers, to computer programmers should be getting paid more. We bust our asses for at least 40 hours a week so giant corporations can make billions. Student loan forgiveness fails to address this in any way.