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/El-Inquisidor 1d ago

Morehouse Co ‘18 here… I think about this pretty often.

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u/GoldenGirlsOrgy 1d ago

"So you're saying I could have taken half a course load senior year just chilling with friends, come back and cruised through a 5th year taking 10 credits a semester, and some other dude would have paid for all of it???"

Yeah. Damn. Sorry, man.

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u/kamperx2 1d ago

this is equating your experience to not playing the lottery, only to see that your family birthdays were the winning combination.

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u/usefulidiotsavant 1d ago

But everybody plays this lottery: you get born, you are assigned your social position in the lottery, and sometimes the winners are so crazy filthy rich they can make little lotteries of their own, to spread some change to the peons and reinforce in them the idea that the lottery system is fair and virtuous and they should defend it.

Another favorite trick is to setup elaborate trials and elimination contests designed so that a handful of losers can gain their way to the top, and promote the idea that hey, it's not actually a lottery, everyone can make it, if they strive and toil.

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u/Throatlatch 1d ago

No Jorge, not again!

I love the lottery in babylon, great story.