Someone born rich and having been rich their whole lives often does have trouble understanding things everyone else has to pay for, including debt and the inability to pay for it. I don't buy it as much in this case when they're donating and suddenly the person they're donating to starts to swing another way, but one big problem is 90-95% of elected officials come from positions of financial privilege that most people don't have.
Case in point, the 600 dollar a week checks were made 600 dollars because they thought that was a comically low amount meant to just sustain them, and were surprised to learn that around half of Americans don't make that much.
Case in point, the 600 dollar a week checks were made 600 dollars because they thought that was a comically low amount meant to just sustain them, and were surprised to learn that around half of Americans don't make that much.