- no, i'm not a hippie. i'm a pretty straightforward guy. [upbeat percussive music] - you guys were told, this is what you need to do to get ahead. and if you do it though, oh, actually, you're not ahead. how does that make you feel that that promise is false? - well, the promise is false, but the solution is true. - okay. - for sure. - braxton and wen joined the debt collective, a group pushing for student debt cancellation with a caveat. - i mean, we advocate for full cancellation. but, like, if the president were to cancel all student debt tomorrow, we'd have some student debt next semester. and so how do we figure that out? how do we solve that problem? the answer is free college. - our parents, grandparents' generation, they didn't go to free college. both: yeah. - with immigrant parents, it was like, they work their whole lives to send their kids to school. and we grew up, like, very rural china. and the thing that they always say is, like, there is more chances to thrive in the u.s. so the paying of school wasn't a problem they were thinking about. they were like, we're going to do this no matter what.
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