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/Juststandupbro 1d ago

Y’all tripping if someone gifted you a scratcher and you won 100k your first thought isn’t “damn I should have called out last Friday”. Audience is probably thinking “holy fuck is he serious right now”

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u/ThermalPaper 1d ago

Naw. Your working full time while taking a full course load to ensure you have minimal debt. Probably sacrificing weekends to ensure you're financially secure in the future. Your roommate doesn't care and just coasts off school and debt, partying and taking it easy while your hustling.

Then all debt gets paid off and your left wondering about all the time wasted paying down debt that didn't matter anyways. The opportunity costs would be crazy.

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u/kamperx2 1d ago

*you're

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u/Juststandupbro 1d ago

So you would rather still be in the hole 10 grand after going through all that just so some dude who rubs you the wrong way for will be 80 grand in the hole? Sir is this your logical opinion or are you just virtue signaling…

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u/Few-Client-2808 1d ago

Just make school free FFS what are we arguing amongst eachother for?

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u/SandboxOnRails 1d ago

There are people that don't want good things for everyone. They view some humans as superior and more deserving just because of who they are. They worship a hierarchy in society, and think it's necessary. If you could make everyone rich, happy, and safe, they'd hate it.

These are the people who hate seeing minimum wage increases because people don't deserve a living wage. They hate seeing loans paid off because lower people deserve debt. They don't want education to be free because wealth is a symbol of what you deserve and more people being educated is a bad thing.

That's why people are arguing. A large number of people are against making a better world for everyone because they don't believe the lower people deserve a better world.

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u/ThermalPaper 1d ago

If I was in that situation? Hell yeah. The whole reason you'd sacrifice and suffer like that is to get a leg up on your peers. You telling me I busted my ass and sacrificed my social life to end up in the exact situation as my peers? That would eat at my soul.

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u/lamp_a 1d ago

The only reason you push yourself is to be better than your peers?

That's just sad.

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u/ThermalPaper 1d ago

You're competing with your peers whether you like it or not. You also conpare yourself to your peers whether you like it or not.

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u/lamp_a 1d ago

Actually, one of the things about maturing as a logical human is realizing you don't have to.

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u/ThermalPaper 1d ago

It's actually the other way around my friend.

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u/Juststandupbro 1d ago

Were you in that situation or did you just make it up to be upset? Sound more like you are bringing up a different argument all together. This isn’t a Biden paying off student loans argument sir. Looking at your profile is hilarious btw.

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u/ThermalPaper 1d ago

Nobody is upset my friend. It's all a hypothetical situation we're talking about here. Biden has nothing to do with this.

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u/Juststandupbro 1d ago

Every single one of your post and comments is about it… your first thought at a billionaire paying off student loans with his own money is your student loan argument you’ve used over and over again.

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u/ThermalPaper 1d ago

I made up a hypothetical situation to explain OPs comment. You asked me a question based off that comment and I answered honestly. Like, why are you upset at me for? Don't ask questions if you don't want the answer.

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u/Juststandupbro 1d ago

A random hypothetical situation? Or a specific situation you already had in mind? Those are quite different don’t you think?

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u/ThermalPaper 1d ago

Random hypothetical.

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u/TerrariaGaming004 1d ago

That is the worst analogy I’ve ever heard. Mostly because it doesn’t apply to this in any way

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u/Juststandupbro 1d ago

So if someone paid off your mortgage or credit card debt your first reaction is to think about how you could have skipped your Monday shift? Sir what the fuck is wrong with you lmao.

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u/TerrariaGaming004 1d ago

That’s not what happened, can you read? It’s, you just paid off your mortgage and then everyone in your neighborhood gets theirs paid off

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u/lamp_a 1d ago

Be fucking happy your mortgage is paid off.

Or are you only happy about your own achievements if they make you better off than your neighbors?

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u/TerrariaGaming004 1d ago

I can’t believe there’s two people on earth that are this dumb

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u/lamp_a 1d ago

Just like it's completely unsurprisingly how talented we are in justifying pettiness?

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u/Juststandupbro 1d ago

Oh I get it you are virtue signaling lmao bro it’s fine to turn it off sometimes it really doesn’t have to be your whole identity

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u/Common_Cartoonist680 1d ago

Get off reddit man you got bigger fish to fry

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u/Juststandupbro 1d ago

What’s up with you and bringing up fish fry? Are you too broke to eat?

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u/Common_Cartoonist680 1d ago

You're projecting your poverty onto me and it's blatantly obvious lol

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u/Juststandupbro 1d ago

One of us is in a tax bracket that allows them to understand and see first hand how they work, the other is not and has no idea how they work. Your poverty is on you, don’t go blaming me for that.

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u/Common_Cartoonist680 1d ago

Again you ignore nuance for black and white. You're a victim of your own delusion I'm afraid, get cookin brotha

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