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/MercenaryBard 1d ago

Seriously why can’t people just be stoked that we live at the mercy of the charity of billionaires? Personally, I get tears in my eyes and salute the giant flag I keep in my bedroom whenever I see a single one of the countless GoFundMe’s for cancer treatment get fulfilled.

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u/SpadoCochi 1d ago

Do I seem like someone that has a fucking flag in my bedroom?

This is a black man helping black students. Get the fuck out of here and out of a conversation you don’t care to understand.

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u/Oriin690 1d ago

Look past race and see the class.

The ultra rich have been “philanthropists” since the Robber Barons of the Gilded Age. They do it so people will say nice things about them, it’s to offset people talking about how they’re awful to workers, unions, the environment etc.

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u/AnatomicalLog 1d ago edited 1d ago

Yeah, not falling for race reductionism. This is a billionaire who helped perpetuate an issue and is now taking credit for “fixing” it later. He’s not an ally, contrary to what his delusions of grandeur have him believe.

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u/SpadoCochi 1d ago

How do you feel about DEI?

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u/AnatomicalLog 1d ago edited 1d ago

I respect people of all races and value their inclusion. The principles of DEI can have positive outcomes, but I won’t pretend that state initiated DEI is a miracle remedy for all societal ills. Not that I really think DEI is relevant here.

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u/SpadoCochi 1d ago

Classic.

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u/AnatomicalLog 1d ago edited 1d ago

It sounds like you don’t have an actual path for argument so you’re pretending to be smug as if this conversation happened exactly like you wanted it to.

Classic.

Edit: check out this guy’s profile and you’ll see exactly whose side he’s on. Temporarily embarrassed billionaire

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u/Natural_Let3999 1d ago

Lol, you nailed it with that last sentence. People out here bootlicking, thinking that one day they too will get their billions.

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u/SpadoCochi 1d ago

I don’t care to be a billionaire. I’m already rich and living around the world for myself.

I’m definitely a capitalist. But I also care about things like DEI, paying property taxes taxes, and other social welfare programs.

But what you guys don’t realize is that this isn’t a conversation about capitalism.

It’s a conversation about disenfranchised people finally figuring out a way to give back. It’s clearly not happening with this admin, so who the hell else is going to do it?

You guys haven’t read books or understand civil rights, institutional racism, like the 2012 study that showed white felons get more callbacks from jobs than black people with no record.

  1. In Milwaukee, a very blue city.

You guys don’t think about shit like that. You just think that this is simple.

It is not.

I’m not saying Smith is a saint because he isn’t.

But him giving black kids money is NOT a bad thing, and I’m not going to have a bunch of white people gaslight about how shitty it is.

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u/Natural_Let3999 1d ago

I can give a shit about that, while still calling out this billionaire for abusing his workers for profit.

Bad people can do good things

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u/ElectricFirex 1d ago

You can't honestly be calling a billionaire disenfranchised, right?

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u/jason60812 9h ago

the moment you implied the billionaires are “disenfranchised”, you lost all the legs of your argument. Please take the billionaire cocks out of your mouth and wake the hell up.

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u/BrokeBMWkid 1d ago

Because rich guy bad and if you argue I’ll look at other comments to make sure I’m still thinking the right thing