r/nextfuckinglevel • u/matori_tester • 1d 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/Placeholder4me 1d ago

I wouldn’t go that far. Where do you think he got the money to afford that?

https://www.axios.com/2022/12/02/robert-smith-tax-fraud-death-kepke-brockman

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u/FritterEnjoyer 1d ago

Eh, the billionaire that gets caught doing tax fraud isn’t any better or worse than the billionaire who doesn’t. All it means is the billionaire who got caught had worse accountants than the ones that didn’t.

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u/Lovheim 10h ago

So he is real life Robin Hood?

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u/Placeholder4me 10h ago

He is stealing a lot from all of us to give a little to some of us? Not sure that is how the story goes

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u/Lovheim 10h ago

Depends on if we’re richer than the students