All Americans Should Stop Paying Student Debt

Elijah Abramson M.D. outside the Capitol in Sacramento, CA. October 2025.

Capitalism is, by this era, discriminatory by nature. Access to healthcare, education, housing are tied to capital. Considering that this takes the form of capital acquired both from “new money” and “old money,” the people must consider how to fight this discrimination.

The polarizing nature of our current political and religious climate has redirected focus and created rage amongst groups that are more similar than they are different. We have seen a rise in populism on the left and right but that just cause has been corrupted by various isms. This includes racism, sexism, xenophobia, anti-semitism, Islamophobia, homophobia or any form of redirection of hatred of another marginalized group.

In my opinion, the marginalized group is the common woman, man, and child. Every ethnic or religious group has been traumatized by someone to some degree in the past. But in populism’s effective fight for the proletariat, it should quell or diminish the fear and hatred of other marginalized groups.

The toxic trait of marginalized groups, a.k.a. all common people, is to race to the bottom to see who had it worse.

We must stop that behavior and those actions.

Class consciousness is realizing that every person who is struggling and slaving away to capitalism is marginalized by the proletariat also known as the capitalist. And we cannot be focused on hating people who look different from us, believe things different from us, or are attracted to different things from us.

Considering the mass of labour power is cheaply exchanged for capital, We The People must realize that our power is in both the labor that we perform and the capital that we earn and the way that we spend it.

Fundamentally, especially in the United States of America, the way that we fight capitalism is with capital. What I mean by this is not just by consumerist behavior. It is also by debt accumulation and payment.

The first thing to focus on, to me, is student debt.

Student debt, and tuition, is discriminatory by nature. The institution that I attended, University of California, Berkeley, was free-for-all when my high school chemistry teacher attended it approximately 50 years prior to when I attended. It was not free when I attended. It has become even less free since I attended.

Medical school is exponentially more discriminatory. Many logical people choose not to attend because not only is the educational pursuit insanely demanding in America but so is the financial commitment.

This is why most American-trained physicians are children of physicians. Interestingly, though, like many other industries of blue-collar nature, America also imports a large amount of its physicians. So instead of creating an affordable educational structure, we have decided to prioritize importing talent and perpetuating nepotism by making our physicians largely the children of physicians.

I think the solution here is really quite simple. The banks were bailed out in 2008 during the housing crisis. So if the government can select who to bail out then they can bail out every American who has student debt. Knowledge is power. Knowledge is access. And restricting it, at the undergraduate and undergraduate medical levels, for example, is discriminatory.

I suggest that all Americans apply to the schools that they want, see where they get in, and do not worry about the student debt. My suggestion is that we do not pay any student debt. A friend once said that when he or she gets medical debt bills in the mail that he or she just throws them out.

Rich business people can declare bankruptcy to get rid of business debt. But someone everyone else must be trapped by student debt?

Let us do the same with student debt. Throw it out.