Did you both attend the same four year, live-in college? Both live on-campus? Both end up getting B.S. degrees?
I went to a college close to my house and walked to school most day. 4 year degree, double major, had a job a NASA lined up before graduation.
Huh? I'm not remotely opposed to them. In fact, I think plenty of folks might do better as entrepeneurs (small scale) than going to college period. Apple was started by two guys with barely any college between them, and who were actually working other jobs while working on their computer.
Steve Jobs attended plenty of college. He just didn't get a degree. He learned plenty of things at college that he used to make Apple great. He just found a way to do it for free by auditing the classes and sleeping wherever he can. I don't know if that's even possible today.
Then how is it that there are so many entrepeneurs? Where did all those startups come from, if it is so impossible without college loan forgiveness? Just look at your own example of Google. How did those guys manage to start that company without college loan forgiveness?
We are talking about addressing the issue of the massive amount of loans most people need to get an education today and the burden/restrictions it causes. It makes people less likely to take a chance at starting their own business. Yes, we'll still have entrepreneurs. The system is putting a drain on it, though. And ultimately that hurts everyone. Entrepreneurs build the companies that grow the economy and generate jobs.
If you finish school with no debt, you don't really need funding to start a business. You can live at home for a year or two and build a business with a computer and an internet connection. Your only real expense is food and maybe some server space somewhere. You can spend 60-100 hours a week working on it. Even a small amount of revenue early on is enough to get by on if you can live on next to nothing.
If you have $100k of student loans, you can't do that without some real funding that has to include enough to cover your loan payments. And funding is really hard to find when you start a new business. You have a significant bill to pay, you have to take a job working for someone else to pay the bills, which also adds other expenses such as your commute.
The more time that passes, the more hurdles you have (car payment, rent/mortgage, wife, kids, etc.), the harder it is for people to take that chance they were forced to pass on early on. It's really, really hard to quit your job and start your own business when you have a job that comfortably pays your monthly expenses.
The other issue is some families can afford to pay for their children's education while the prospect of $50-80k of debt is enough for other families to not even give their children a chance to attend. That is broken.