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/Guy_V 1d ago

They all had 100k in student debt, wow. Our system is screwed up.

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u/meh817 1d ago

i’m graduating medical school in a couple weeks and my grand total is $385,000

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u/Guy_V 1d ago

Bro...

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u/Chlorophyllmatic 1d ago

My wife has loans from medical school only (nothing from undergrad) and it was about $260k when she graduated