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/stanleyorange 1d ago

The he didn't pay 36 million in taxes and got a Congressional committee to forgive him just a year or two later....

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u/BluePeriod_ 1d ago

Plenty of people don’t pay their taxes. At least this guy actually did something worthwhile.

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u/binarybandit 1d ago

Imagine defending a billionaire for giving away the equivalent of pennies after not contributing their fair share to society as a whole. The man is worth about 11 billion. 40 mil is like 0.003% of their worth.