The SBA’s SVOG grants were intended for struggling small artists. But big stars like Post Malone and Chris Brown got $200M in pandemic ​r​elief funds.

    • Stoneykins [any]
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      111 year ago

      To be clear, the thing being talked about in the article was not a ppp loan, but a grant. There is no indication anyone, intended recipient or not, is supposed to pay this one back

      • @Burn_The_Right
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        41 year ago

        Grants have rules, and it looks like these rich fucks (who never needed any of that money) just pocketed it. People are fucking losing their homes and are starving and these goddamned talentless conservative grifters are profiting from the misery.

    • @WhatAmLemmy
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      101 year ago

      Why would the oligarchy allow proles to have any taste of financial freedom? The point of their existence is indentured servitude…