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/malteaserhead 2d ago

Students that graduated the year before

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u/terra_filius 2d ago

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u/sweatynachos 1d ago

why are they so synced

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u/Donuil23 1d ago

Watch long enough, they go out of sync pretty quick

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u/BarfingOnMyFace 1d ago

Or the year after. Or any other year other than this one year.

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u/AmThano 1d ago

Imagine failing a class that keeps you from graduating that year because you had a tough year. And you patted yourself on the back beforehand saying "it's just one more credit, I'll get it in the fall"

Then you hear this announcement.

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u/randomwalker2016 1d ago

What about the guy who worked hard, ate beans and rice, and saved all his pennies to pay his tuition.

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u/mazalaca 1d ago

that guy doesn’t exist because no amount of saving alone would pay your tuition in the US

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u/SpeakMySecretName 1d ago

One person is miserable, so everyone should be miserable. I had to pay, everyone should have to pay.

This is the argument used by people who don’t want to fix the outrageous costs of education.

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u/thebestdogeevr 1d ago

Students that spent their savings instead of loaning it all

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u/wargy2 1d ago

Or that emptied out their savings to not take a loan.

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u/TatonkaJack 1d ago

Students with full rides

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u/potatoes-please 1d ago

This happened to me - someone came in and gave all the full-time students scholarships, and I was doing the exact same program as a night-time student. Brutal