If you don't watch Last Week Tonight, the brilliant HBO comedy-news program starring John Oliver, you should. If you do watch Last Week Tonight, you should know how lucky you are.
In this past episode, after detailing the dirty and corrupt way that banks sell people's debts to private firms, many of whom routinely employ odious collection tactics against their victims, John Oliver let us in on a beautiful and meaningful skit. He was able to purchase fifteen million dollars of debt for only $60,000, all of which he proceeded to forgive. That's right: the people who owed that fifteen million dollars no longer owe it.
Just like that, John Oliver has made many people's lives better than they were before his show aired. And that, my friends, is the textbook definition of doing good in the world.
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