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Topic: The Briefcase (Read 1810 times)
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schild
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HaemishM
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What a fucking tool belt.
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pxib
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A more intelligent article about the show: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.
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sickrubik
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Someone was telling me about this show. I seriously thought they were joking.
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beer geek.
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Signe
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I would keep the money unless kittens needed it.
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Samwise
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$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!
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Evildrider
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$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!
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Rendakor
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I'd just keep it all. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Surlyboi
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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.
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« Last Edit: June 04, 2015, 07:10:48 PM by Surlyboi »
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Tuned in, immediately get to watch cringey Ubisoft talking head offering her deepest sympathies to the families impacted by the Orlando shooting while flanked by a man in a giraffe suit and some sort of "horrifically garish neon costumes through the ages" exhibit or something. We need to stop this fucking planet right now and sort some shit out. -Kail
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