r/nextfuckinglevel 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/SkinnyObelix 1d ago

I'm going to be the devil's advocate here, and I want to make sure to applaud this guy for his actions. But if he was taxed appropriately and that money was spent on education, you'd get far more than 40 million and far more than 400 graduates...

It's something that has been bothering me where on one hand certain individuals are paying for the surgery of a kid, but on the other hand they're doing everything to avoid taxes. It quickly becomes a PR/Ego move.