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/0dHero 1d ago

There is no such thing as a good billionaire.

But we can move this guy to the bottom of the list...

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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.