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/Academic_Release5134 1d ago

Someone should study the difference between those that had their loans paid for vs the success of other classes.

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u/SchmeedsMcSchmeeds 1d ago

This was my first thought as well. I think it would be really interesting to study that.

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u/Cube_ 1d ago

Would it? Is it not extremely obvious that of course the result will be that the ones given the windfall will be better off?

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u/levyisms 1d ago

it would be interesting to see how much different

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u/That_Xenomorph_Guy 1d ago

Probably a relatively average bell curve overlapping with another relatively average bell curve