It's not that I don't appreciate the actions, it's that I'm uncomfortable with the idea that oligarchy means working people are beholden to an unaccountable group of affluents. It's like we're outsourcing the government's responsibility for collective welfare.
There's historically been substantial investment in universities and colleges, but that was always about increasing the number of people with those educations (economic development in other words) and never about universal higher education.
Nowadays there's lots of people pursuing professional education and the support available to each individual has been declining (this may still cost lots more than higher levels of support that existed when fewer people sought degrees).
The fact that so many shop at Walmart is what keeps the Walton family wealthy. Why would it be wrong to expect them to pay that back in some way? Nobody is saying they should go broke doing it, but they owe their success not only to their business acumen and good decisions but to the people that continue to shop there in the face of alternatives.