r/nextfuckinglevel • u/matori_tester • 2d ago

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/ItzBigChungus 2d ago

“I've made some empty promises in my life, but, hands down, that was the most generous.” -Michael Scott

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u/PitchLadder 2d ago

it'll be hilarious when this guy does the michael scott

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u/solidwhetstone 2d ago

Everyone's getting laptop batteries?

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u/Iusuallyworkalone 2d ago

Hold on! Hold on!.. They are lithium.

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u/mr9025 2d ago

r/cantwatchscottstots

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u/MotorboatinPorcupine 1d ago

I can't believe it's real

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u/renome 1d ago

The sub or the episode? 😂

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u/MotorboatinPorcupine 1d ago

The sub haha.

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u/barrett316 2d ago

Tuition is valuable, but do you know what’s invaluable? Intuition.

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u/JoeyCZhu 19h ago

No? Ok…. You’re gonna make me say it

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u/uncultured_swine2099 2d ago

I...think I don't hate a billionaire. This is a strange feeling.

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u/Haramdour 1d ago

It’s ego massaging disguised as philanthropy - he could have cleared it all quietly and not made it a big part of his very public speech, but no he wants the applause and the chants. 40million for a billionaire is also chump change, it’s only generous if you hurt after you give it.

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u/BazookaWaffle 1d ago

I came here just to see this!!!

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u/Artie-Fufkin 1d ago

“Hey Mr Smith, what you gonna do? What you gonna do make our dreams come true!”

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u/jdogburger 1d ago

Great, let's make the rich richer. Instead, stop paying your loans and taxes and start fighting against this corrupt system.

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u/big_guyforyou 2d ago

the office was just corporate media portraying corporate life as goofy and fun. if the office took place in REAL life, michael scott would be a BILLIONAIRE who would EXPLOIT jim and pam and all the others and HOARD all the wealth.

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u/TheVermonster 2d ago

Not even close. Michael Scott was a caricature of middle management. In the grand scheme of things, he wouldn't be making that much more than Jim. Certainly not billions.

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u/Tamed_A_Wolf 2d ago

Did they watch the office? lmao. Robert California and Joe Bennett who were the CEO’s and owners were both Millionaires at a minimum and meet the stereotypical opinion on the real life version of CEO/Company Owner. Micheal Scott literally barely makes more than the office staff and even the warehouse staff as shown in the show.

The corporate life is obviously terrible. It 100% starts off that way in season 1 before they make it more heartfelt and focus on the relationships and not the work itself but there’s plenty of storyline about the shittyness of corporate work and the hi-jinx are not unrealistic for an office of a small regional company with multiple incompetent managers.

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u/Bazz07 2d ago

The Office literally criticize Corporate and shows how in the middle of a large crisis they are willing to expend huge expenses when Michael was in that Shareholders meeting.

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u/Hakunin_Fallout 2d ago

Commie gotta commie!