If you have student debt you've got a pretty good reason to view getting your debt canceled as "fair". If you have already paid your loans or never incurred them in the first place, you are much more likely to see it as unfair.

The sheer size of the debts and the enormous expense of school has been magnified by the availability of the debts themselves. Students have money for school because they can get loans, and that demand and easily availability of money pushes up the price of tuition and increases the length of time spent at school.

Honestly, it's been quite a racket. Students are both beneficiaries and victims. The schools have made a killing and burdened their customers with a lifetime of debt. The whole system is so cozy and morally corrupt it can make your ears bleed just thinking about it.

The hard nosed, economically smart solution is to permit the debts to be discharged in bankruptcy and very sharply reduce the availability of student loans in order reduce the debt that will wind up as burden for both students and the public, as well as to force the price of tuition to more reasonable levels. Let the market work.

Alas, or perhaps hooray, that won't happen. Instead, all these debts are going to burn up in the coming inflationary fire. Make your minimum payments, get your forebearances, or just plain don't pay. In a few years you'll probably be able to pay these debts with pocket change. And that's no exaggeration.