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Title: The Briefcase Post by: schild on June 04, 2015, 12:27:25 AM http://www.ew.com/article/2015/06/03/briefcase-producer-we-dont-pit-poor-people-against-one-another
lol Title: Re: The Briefcase Post by: HaemishM on June 04, 2015, 10:23:56 AM What a fucking tool belt.
Title: Re: The Briefcase Post by: pxib on June 04, 2015, 11:23:51 AM A more intelligent article about the show: (http://www.vulture.com/2015/05/briefcase-plays-into-americas-class-anxiety.html)
Quote America perceives poverty as a moral failure, which is why the participants on The Briefcase have to perform generosity to such an extreme degree. These people have to "prove" themselves as virtuous — to themselves, to one another, but in particular to a viewing audience at home — to show how unlike other poor people they are. We're not really poor, we just had a string of really bad luck, unlike those other people who are poor on purpose. I'm not suggesting the families on the show aren't actually nice. In fact, many of them seem incredibly loving and wonderful, people any of us would be lucky to know. But even assholes are entitled not to live a life of abject suffering. Why does the burden of helping "struggling" people fall on other struggling people? Is Les Moonves[, president and CEO of CBS Corp,] pulling his car over to throw up because he's so paralyzed by trying to do the right thing? If he is, make a show about that. If he's not, make a show about why not. Title: Re: The Briefcase Post by: sickrubik on June 04, 2015, 01:32:31 PM Someone was telling me about this show. I seriously thought they were joking.
Title: Re: The Briefcase Post by: Signe on June 04, 2015, 02:25:08 PM I would keep the money unless kittens needed it.
Title: Re: The Briefcase Post by: Samwise on June 04, 2015, 03:02:49 PM $50k is a lot of money. I'm pretty sure as soon as they pitched me that offer I'd just say "okay, I'll keep half, they take half, I don't need to know anything else." No matter how bad off they are I'm not going to feel bad about "only" giving them $50k, and at the same time I'm not going to complain about me "only" keeping $50k worth of free money even if they're assholes. So, whatever. Down the middle. Done. Everyone gets to go home early. Woo!
Title: Re: The Briefcase Post by: Evildrider on June 04, 2015, 04:03:31 PM $50k is a lot of money. I'm pretty sure as soon as they pitched me that offer I'd just say "okay, I'll keep half, they take half, I don't need to know anything else." No matter how bad off they are I'm not going to feel bad about "only" giving them $50k, and at the same time I'm not going to complain about me "only" keeping $50k worth of free money even if they're assholes. So, whatever. Down the middle. Done. Everyone gets to go home early. Woo! That is basically my thoughts too. Title: Re: The Briefcase Post by: Rendakor on June 04, 2015, 04:05:08 PM I'd just keep it all. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Title: Re: The Briefcase Post by: Surlyboi on June 04, 2015, 06:50:40 PM And Les Moonves makes more in a week than all the money they're gonna give these poor bastards with their Faustian bargain.
Fuck this show and fuck whoever thought it was a good idea. |