there were fewer people total, so fewer bands - ie: less trash to sort through / increased popularity
there's arguably more things to protest about nowadays but because of that there's fewer things that both resonate with a lot of people and sound good at the same time
if everyone is protesting, no one is. there's too many different slogans being called out, too many different groups to support (ie: buy the album or give them radio time), and many of those groups are at odds with each other.
technological advancement - radio is seen as a dead medium to many these days, there are far more ways to consume media than to listen to the radio. it may be that protest songs just dont air on the radio for that reason alone - their target demographic doesnt listen to radio.
and again, students are an economic sink until they're able to contribute to the economy. conversely, a business will always contribute to the economy - even a failing business pays their employees (or doesnt and the DoL sues them, then pays the employees).
PPP loans were a stopgap measure to ensure that the economy didnt collapse when old people were dying in droves. literally all it was. PPP loans were forgiven because the national economy requires that businesses move money around - the "spice must flow", if you will - and rightly so, because a business is useful, whereas students really arent.
there's no real guarantee that higher education will lead to a net gain in the economy though - it might, but it's not a 100% chance.
k-12 is already free, and a lot of people over the decades have been very productive with just that level of education - daresay they've contributed more to the economy - after all, anyone working is a net economic gain over no one working, regardless of their level of education.
that's nonsense. higher education has a LOT of administrative overhead. the overwhelming vast majority of teachers/professors/etc expect to make a decent wage. tenure has some impact on that as well, but they sure as hell arent philanthropists - the overall academic experience would be drastically different if educational professionals were not adequately compensated for their work. there are many other factors at play as well but paying the teachers is a big one.
bottom line - education is expensive & will always remain so. accreditation from cheaper schools is all well and good but for many professions, where you graduated from is just as important as the act of obtaining a degree at all.
in regards to "jobs paying more" - a basic job is going to pay whatever is the lowest it can get away with. if it's too low, no one will accept that job offering & the position will either remain unfilled or the business will offer a higher remuneration. if you lack marketable skills, you are perfectly able to apply for anything you'd like but the chance of you actually gaining that job is laughably low; however, to gain skills one must accrue them - by either working up the ladder, gaining skill via experience, or investment into higher education (which, should be noted doesnt really provide skills, so much as a skillset or framework that the skills can later be integrated into).
PPO has to do with health insurance. not sure what you're referring to
I suppose then it's a lesson on whom you should trust when you're planning on making life-altering financial decisions. presumably the lesson was learned?
PPP loans were provided to businesses so that their employees werent immediately fired wholesale - which is what would have happened to many businesses when the customer base dried up during lockdown/covid. businesses are a net gain to the economy - they provide economic stimulus. allowing businesses to fail would just start a collapse. PPP loans by the government worked to prevent that - rather well, in fact.
students eventually provide economic stimulus but are a net detriment until they are capable of adding back to the economy & that includes paying off their student loans.
Thortona?