Why don't TV shows focus on student debt?

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"When millions of Americans, especially Black women and other women of color, are being pulled under by the rising cost of higher education, there are almost no stories about it on our many, many screens," says Kayti Burt, adding: "TV shows about the obnoxiously wealthy, such as Succession or Big Little Lies, are seen as giving vital insight into American society and garner prestigious awards that reinforce that social value. Meanwhile, TV series about the working class community, such as On the Block, Vida, or P-Valley, are framed as niche entertainment and more often than not live their series’ runs on the bubble." As former Vida and Sacred Lies writer Jenniffer Gómez explains, the problem is a lot of people who work in the TV industry are either rich or poor. “There's no middle class," says Gómez. “You're either not being paid a living wage, or you're making really good money. It's just the extremes. … A lot of times, the people who are deciding if a show will go (forward) or not are in the extreme of making really good money.”