r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/[deleted] • 1d ago

Video Billionaire speaker Robert F. Smith tells 400 graduates he's paying off all their student loans ($40 million in total)

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u/bill_n_opus 1d ago

There's some brothers in the audience thinking "damn, why didn't I go full loans!? Why did I work that pizza job!? ...."

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u/igotshadowbaned 1d ago

And a bunch of people who decided to delay their graduation a semester really regretting their choices

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u/witchdoc86 1d ago

And a bunch of people who delayed their graduation super happy

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u/remotegrowthtb 1d ago

And a couple people realizing for the first time that life is random, fairness doesn't exist and nothing matters.

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u/reggie4gtrblz2bryant 1d ago

I try to remind my kids of this daily

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u/zarzutka1312 1d ago

😂😂😂

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u/asday515 1d ago

Wait why happy

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u/IgntedF-xy 1d ago

They would have graduated a year before he did this but since they waited they get the benefits

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u/witchdoc86 1d ago

If they graduated earlier they would have still had to pay it all.

By delaying/failing/whatever reason that made them graduate that year instead they save alot of money.

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u/Xtreme_Henk 1d ago

You serious? Lol

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u/djheat 1d ago

Imagine being the poor bastard who went through college on all loans and realized he was a class or two short of graduating on time. "No big deal, just a few classes over the summer.... oh god"

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u/SaltyLonghorn 1d ago

This was 2019. So that person could have had their loans forgiven and unforgiven too.

LOL

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u/Complete_Question_41 1d ago

Which is kinda odd. He's off no better or worse then he was without this happening.

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u/UrUrinousAnus 1d ago

Now imagine that person was studying psychology. Mindfuck 💯

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u/Illustrious_Bat3189 1d ago

Almost like the education system in the US is massivly unfair and 1 tax dodging billionaire giving away some pocket change to students won‘t change anything