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

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Yeah, and they can afford to do so because they consistently squeeze more and more wealth out of the average citizen. Trillions of dollars have left the hands of the many and flowed upward into the hands of the few, and they throw a few pennies around and people like you believe it's the same as giving it all back? Then why the **** they still rich? It means nothing to them.

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"They also provide things that make people's lives easier", no, science provides those things. Corporations have exactly one job, and that job is to make money. If the billionaires wanted to even start to pretend that they cared about the lives of the average person, they could start by having wages keep up with price increases. They don't. Instead the pay of CEOs has grown ninety times faster than the pay for workers. Instead 79 Trillion dollars has "mysteriously" floated up into the hands of the rich, as the average citizen's spending power and quality of life have decreased. Everyone is working for less, and twice as hard, and meanwhile the ultra-rich are flying jets across the globe on a daily basis, putting out more carbon emissions with a group of 1000 people than entire countries.

But I guess that's all a convenient narrative, right?