Thread by @annehelen

Wrote about health insurance, student loans, job lock, and the debt plot that keeps us tethered to and "grateful" for shitty jobs:

annehelen.substack.com/p/job-lock-and…

Here is the great piece on "the health insurance plot" that got me thinking about some of these ideas:

electricliterature.com/the-health-ins…

And here is a typically excellent @AnnieLowrey piece on the case for student debt jubilee:

theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Another piece of the puzzle rattling around in my brain all week

https://twitter.com/tressiemcphd/status/1328445541085306880

And how it keeps patriarchal structures in place:

https://twitter.com/JessicaCalarco/status/1330587773259145224

Really should have been "keeps us tethered to and "grateful" for shitty jobs and bad relationships"

annehelen.substack.com/p/job-lock-and…