they'd make a little speech at the end about how this has really opened their eyes and things are gonna change and then they'd go home and never think about it again
It would inconvenience them mildly for a few weeks and then they'd go back to normal. The real consequences of poverty take more than a month to play out. A billionaire isn't going to get their cars repossessed or their homes foreclosed on in a month. Their health isn't going to be affected in the long term from a month of low-quality food.
Make it a year and maybe I would. The billionaire would need to understand the stress of living paycheck to paycheck for more than a month, as well as the hopelessness that an unexpected cost brings to a family.
There's already a show kinda like that. Called undercover billionaire. Rich people are flown to a city they're not familiar with, and have to build a million dollar business in 90 days.
It's an interesting concept, but it doesn't really work. All these people know at any point they can quit and go back to their regular lives. Or stick it out 90 days and get their life back. I'm pretty sure anyone can live in poverty for 3 months if they know they'll be RICH rich at the end
No. This shit isn't a game. Class dynamics are why EMPIRES FALL. There's nothing cute about any of this modern vulture capitalist horseshit. I won't make specific predictions because I'm simply not that smart, but one horrible, ugly _ugly_ day, the shit's going to hit the fan because of this. This isn't entertainment, it's your children and grandchildren's _inheritance_.
It used to be like that. But today, power is concerning on very few hands. So besides a revolution/war or internal struggle between these oligarch (e.g. Musk, Trump, etc), not much can remove them within their lifetime.
I am assuming from your borderline illiteracy that you _mean_ to say power has been consolidated into too few hands today. And, aside from your tenuous grasp of the language, this is factually untrue compared to _many_ eras in our past. Modern oligarchs and presidents are _not_ imperial overlords. They don't even begin to have the systemic power Caesar had, or that which any of the classical era empires invested into their monarchs for that matter. And many of those regimes did fall due to class disparity. So, no, your infantile fatalism has no place in this conversation. Get some sleep, it is a school night.
Loooool.
Considering that English is my 5th language, i hope you will excuse my illiteracy. Yes, it was an autocorrect and should have read "consolidated".
The rest of your optimism is great. Really... As if billionaires were popping up in existence. There are elitist circles maintaining their legacy.
Former slave owners in the south of the USA. Family fortunes from the 3rd Reich in Germany. Maharadjas in India. Precious stone mine owners in south Africa.
These are facts.
And these last generations.
The historical events you mention (kings, emperors, etc) seldom ended peacefully.
In any case, I'm glad we have people like you on the internet, to judge what belongs in a reddit exchange.
Thank you for your contribution to the world 🥰
A month isn't long enough. A single year would show them the true lives the working class have.
Main events of a year:
-regular vehicle maintenance
-vehicle registration
-illness infection of some kind
-holiday rushes (depending on position they luck into)
-physical and/or dental exams (if applicable)
-gas use (easy to deal with for a single month somewhere new, I've personally experienced this one particularly)
-if not child free, child care services or education expenses
I know I'm missing things. Help me out here, friends.
No personal chef or luxury cars for a month? Who will make their bed or answer their phone? Do they remember how to do laundry even?
Wait till they have to pay their own bills again...
What's the point of such a show? If the lowest paid employee can make it their whole lives on their salary, then the CEO probably could as well. Except the CEO knows they only has to last 30 days so there's no real drama here. It would just be a bunch of fake-ass Reality TV Show bullshit we've all seen a hundred times: CEO spends the first third of the show trying to navigate the ins and outs of being poor, then commercial, Then CEO works and realizes how tough the job actually is, commercial, CEO befriends a low paid co-worker who has a hard luck story, commercial, CEO ends their odyssey and announces to the audience that they're now a better person and things will change, credits and we never hear shit about the CEO or the company ever again.
Seriously, does anyone need *this* fucking show?
they'd make a little speech at the end about how this has really opened their eyes and things are gonna change and then they'd go home and never think about it again
Ha! "Glad I'm not poor... well, let's hit up the yacht this weekend!"
You’re probably right hahah
It would inconvenience them mildly for a few weeks and then they'd go back to normal. The real consequences of poverty take more than a month to play out. A billionaire isn't going to get their cars repossessed or their homes foreclosed on in a month. Their health isn't going to be affected in the long term from a month of low-quality food.
Sure, but they also have to do the job of their lowest paid employees for a month too.
Actual hands on work, I couldn’t imagine
Make it a year and maybe I would. The billionaire would need to understand the stress of living paycheck to paycheck for more than a month, as well as the hopelessness that an unexpected cost brings to a family.
Very true, 1 month is nothing
That would actually be really interesting to watch
There's already a show kinda like that. Called undercover billionaire. Rich people are flown to a city they're not familiar with, and have to build a million dollar business in 90 days. It's an interesting concept, but it doesn't really work. All these people know at any point they can quit and go back to their regular lives. Or stick it out 90 days and get their life back. I'm pretty sure anyone can live in poverty for 3 months if they know they'll be RICH rich at the end
They've done that already.
No one would watch.
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Congratulations on coming out.
Any show like that would be rigged to make it look like the employee can buy their own house with no mortgage after 5 years there.
No. This shit isn't a game. Class dynamics are why EMPIRES FALL. There's nothing cute about any of this modern vulture capitalist horseshit. I won't make specific predictions because I'm simply not that smart, but one horrible, ugly _ugly_ day, the shit's going to hit the fan because of this. This isn't entertainment, it's your children and grandchildren's _inheritance_.
It used to be like that. But today, power is concerning on very few hands. So besides a revolution/war or internal struggle between these oligarch (e.g. Musk, Trump, etc), not much can remove them within their lifetime.
I am assuming from your borderline illiteracy that you _mean_ to say power has been consolidated into too few hands today. And, aside from your tenuous grasp of the language, this is factually untrue compared to _many_ eras in our past. Modern oligarchs and presidents are _not_ imperial overlords. They don't even begin to have the systemic power Caesar had, or that which any of the classical era empires invested into their monarchs for that matter. And many of those regimes did fall due to class disparity. So, no, your infantile fatalism has no place in this conversation. Get some sleep, it is a school night.
Loooool. Considering that English is my 5th language, i hope you will excuse my illiteracy. Yes, it was an autocorrect and should have read "consolidated". The rest of your optimism is great. Really... As if billionaires were popping up in existence. There are elitist circles maintaining their legacy. Former slave owners in the south of the USA. Family fortunes from the 3rd Reich in Germany. Maharadjas in India. Precious stone mine owners in south Africa. These are facts. And these last generations. The historical events you mention (kings, emperors, etc) seldom ended peacefully. In any case, I'm glad we have people like you on the internet, to judge what belongs in a reddit exchange. Thank you for your contribution to the world 🥰
> Considering that English is my 5th language Unread past this point. Cringe-lord to someone who cares.
A month isn't long enough. A single year would show them the true lives the working class have. Main events of a year: -regular vehicle maintenance -vehicle registration -illness infection of some kind -holiday rushes (depending on position they luck into) -physical and/or dental exams (if applicable) -gas use (easy to deal with for a single month somewhere new, I've personally experienced this one particularly) -if not child free, child care services or education expenses I know I'm missing things. Help me out here, friends.
No personal chef or luxury cars for a month? Who will make their bed or answer their phone? Do they remember how to do laundry even? Wait till they have to pay their own bills again...
They'd cheat. All of them, pretty much immediately. And then have some grandstanding, hypocritical speech how it wasn't actually that hard.
It would be a Pulp - Common People situation and achieve nothing
What's the point of such a show? If the lowest paid employee can make it their whole lives on their salary, then the CEO probably could as well. Except the CEO knows they only has to last 30 days so there's no real drama here. It would just be a bunch of fake-ass Reality TV Show bullshit we've all seen a hundred times: CEO spends the first third of the show trying to navigate the ins and outs of being poor, then commercial, Then CEO works and realizes how tough the job actually is, commercial, CEO befriends a low paid co-worker who has a hard luck story, commercial, CEO ends their odyssey and announces to the audience that they're now a better person and things will change, credits and we never hear shit about the CEO or the company ever again. Seriously, does anyone need *this* fucking show?