I do really find Mr Beasts particular brand of smirking dead eyed indifference to the work of artists and anything they might have to say while also desperately trying to profit off of them makes him a perfect symbol of modern capitalism
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I don't wish him harm but I truly wish that this man gets put out of work for like an entire year, just so his brain has the inkling of a chance to reset. He's so terminally capitalist that a psychologist would probably have a field day with him. I can't imagine having so little purpose in life.
If the next potential MrBeast is reading this, I want you to do this: commit to any and as many #team(BLANK)s for EVERY "STUNT". Playing games with 1st world middle class is insignificant as a deserving celebraty next to global yet fun charity as such.
That clip in your latest video where he is talking about the KPIs for his chocolate made me cringe. It's weird to me he gets talked about as "Funny Internet Video Gimmick Guy" when he is really just "Business Robot 3.1" who got lucky.
I maintain that there would've been no better follow up to season 1 than going full Homelander and just having the Game go public with an obvious Mr Beast standin fronting it as an empowering charitable effort, perhaps cynical but anything else feels like it's failing to keep up with the culture
Seeing him weakly promote his own "reality game show for a million dollar prize" under a the marketing of a show that HATES him would be CRITICALLY funny.
If I have learned anything from my turnaround on this guy over the past 2 years, it is that the ultra wealthy under absolutely no circumstances deserve the benefit of the doubt and can be assumed nefarious at all times
Yea, I live in Illinois and Pritzker is a better governor than the last 5 or 10 we've had and yet he's a billionaire and I think from a hotel family so Im just sitting here waiting for the other shoe to drop. Course I have cptsd so I'm always waiting on shoes to drop. :P
I'm the same with shoes dropping and have had the same thought about Pritzker. If he ends up being one of the exceptions to the rule, I'm gonna say it's because he's worth only $3 billion, and it came from a relatively young immigrant family business focused on front-line customer service.
The realization that these ultra wealthy individuals are fully aware that they could do tangible, irrevocable good, if they wished to but they do not because it runs contrary to the accumulation of more capital.
Instead it's much easier to just run a PR campaign.
Then when the PR campaign eventually crumbles they all sprial and self destruct they give up pretending anything and become the money hoarding aliens they always were.
One of the most pervasive lies is “never attribute to malice what can more easily be attributed to stupidity” because a) the two walk hand in hand all the time. b) powerful people are just malicious actors full stop.
Always assume an ignorant person in power is being maliciously ignorant.
That's exactly what I was thinking. The scary notion that you can't disinfect with sunlight. A too-large percentage of people would be completely fine with it.
In the future many fictional villains will owe their inspiration to this man, especially masterminds of death games and cartoony one-off baddies protagonists are forced to put up with at least once per season.
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This view is likely limited by me as a Middle-class 1st world minor, but it at least tries/bothers to push a positive change.
Instead it's much easier to just run a PR campaign.
Always assume an ignorant person in power is being maliciously ignorant.
ignorant actors who achieve the same outcome as malicious actors are the same threat full stop