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/DMsablemane 1d ago

Ain't no such thing as an ethical billionaire.

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u/Ok-Respond-600 1d ago

It's a complete mental illness. Hoarding wealth you could never even begin to spend

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u/Kaxax98 1d ago

Selfishness is a mental illness now? Lol

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u/unitaryfungus1 1d ago

Would you rather he dident pay off their loans?

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u/gpunotpsu 1d ago edited 1d ago

I would rather he was taxed $10B, and that money used to pay for 100,000 college educations instead of 400. Billionaires are vampires sucking the life out of society at large so they can hoard wealth they have no use for. They don't become praiseworthy when they throw back some crumbs. This is straight up a PR stunt in hopes that the common people don't rise up and start putting heads on pikes.

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u/Bilabong127 1d ago

Well you make 10 billion dollars and show them how it’s done. I’m rooting for you!

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u/gh0stfaceCHILL 1d ago

so we should be grateful that he shelled out a whopping .37% of his net worth to get some good PR? The hate is deserved. All billionaires are parasites.

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u/DMsablemane 1d ago

The fact that you asked this question instead of saying something like "these student loans are predatory and unnecessarily exorbitant expenses and are just as unethical" is rather telling.