This is the big one, here. As someone who had delayed assistance from the PPP only to learn that publicly traded companies with market caps of 9 figures or more from loans from the Small Business Administration got their loans first. Where was the outrage? I explained this to Trump voting family members and got just a bunch of "huh" and shoulder shrugging.
College really has become a huge money-making scam. A lot of us growing up in the 90s and early 00s had it hammered in our head over and over that "if you want to get anywhere, you need a college degree." If you ask them what kind, the response was "doesn't matter, just having the degree will get your foot in the door." Ok, sure, let's go do it. Then you start undergrad and then a lot of these programs, whether they be BBA, BA, or BS, start telling you "well, sure you might get a job when you get out, but if you really want to be competitive, you need a masters." Then these same people graduate in 08 through 11 and guess how that went. Then they have to deal with older generations who enjoyed affordable college and being able to provide for a family with just a high school diploma if they didn't go to college chirp non-stop about how "nobody forced those people to take loans they couldn't pay back." They took the loans because they were convinced by the older generations and the system itself that college was necessary and the loans were the only way they could afford it.
The advising system in college is completely broken. Departments depend on students enrolling in them for survival. My wife, who started having second thoughts about her degree, did a little research about job opportunities after graduation and learned that to get the most out of it, she needed an expensive and lengthy internship program after. She didn't like the sound of it, had an opportunity to switch to a related major with possibly better job prospects, but outside of the department of the original major. She goes to the department, voices her concerns, and they tell her with the utmost confidence that she should stay in her current degree and that she didn't need the internship to get a good job. She stays in and finds out after she graduates two things: 1. there is a ceiling without that internship and it is insanely low, as in "shouldn't have even gone to college" low. 2. The department was on its last leg and needed to keep as many students as possible to avoid being eliminated by the school. I am convinced they straight up lied to her to save their own ass.
Now she has a useless degree, but thankfully no student loan debt because her parents paid for it. Very fortunate. Now what happens to her classmates that weren't as fortunate? They are stuck in student loan hell for 20, 30 years? A lot of us from that generation did what was expected of us and were left holding the bag. It makes sense that as more of that generation comes into power that they want to fix those situations for others.