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The loan can only be used on qualified expenses, roughly rent, payroll, and utilities. And there is a $100k cap on qualifying salaries. So in the hypothetical scenario where revenue goes to 0, the owner can only use the money to pay their own salary up to $100k.

Of course, in the real world, I assume revenue for most companies won't go to 0. So there are probably cases where they could offset payroll costs with the loan while pocketing the revenue that would have been used for payroll. In the grand scheme of things though, the loan is only ~2.5 months of payroll, and the businesses that won't feel the impact of this coming recession will be few and far between.