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/BarfingOnMyFace 1d ago

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

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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/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.