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Re:The Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company by pradn on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @04:06PM (#25933945)
You have a rather charitable interpretation of the show. I saw 4 powerful combative "investors" holding ordinary folks in their fists, playing with their lives, and sometimes even verbally abusing them. The show offers a lottery ticket on top of the lottery ticket out of day-to-day work that is creating a new business. What invention the participants bring is commodified a second time, a double grotesquerie. I absolutely can't stand it, and the show, in teaching viewers to hold unsuccessful contestants in contempt, also promotes a sort of circus-like misanthropy.
Re:The Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company by chordalkeyboard on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @10:18PM (#25937722)
Thanks for this counterpoint.