Comment on Trump cosplaying
knightmare1147@lemmy.world 1 month ago
There was a term I really liked for this kind of things: “Vacationing in poverty” I think, where people with wealth ‘adventure’ being homeless or something but don’t even remotely appreciate that the people they’re pretending to be don’t have an ‘off’ switch or an easy out of their situations.
I find the whole premise despicable.
Especially since they keep doing it to prove that “Oh anyone can be a millionaire, ya just gotta not be lazy.”, and despite each of them failing when they fail to prove this, they still proceed to learn nothing form this.
If only I could show the world what rich people really think of the common man, but if thousands of films like “Joker” and “V For Vendetta” where that’s the sole point didn’t do it, then what the fuck else will?
NGL, that is how I first learned of the song, and I do love it.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Kinda like that undercover boss show where they tried to show how great these CEOs are by throwing some money at specific employees that are struggling, ignoring that better leadership and compensation that lines up better with the value being created would improve things for all of the other struggling employees that weren’t lucky enough to be assigned to boss babysitting duty (assuming the whole thing wasn’t staged entirely).
HawlSera@lemm.ee 1 month ago
It probably wasn’t staged sadly. Those privileged billionaires saw the struggling employees as the exception, not the rule.
I know it wasn’t because there was an episode where an employee disillusioned with life and struggling with drug addiction was fired “As a favor to him”, and it was framed as being super wholesome, even though now that guy without any financial support and no way to get help will likely relapse harder than he ever has…
luciferofastora@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
wat
why
How would you even frame that as a favour?
HawlSera@lemm.ee 1 month ago
“It gives you the chance to put your life back in order” and other empty platitudes that ignore what’s really happening.
desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
I would understand a boss going undercover to investigate where things are least efficient and whether their subordinates are lying about safety violations at a lower cost than getting an actual investigation.
superkret@feddit.org 1 month ago
The word “subordinates” disgusts me.
Luckily I’ve never had to work with someone who felt they were above the other members of their team.
HawlSera@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Subordinate has a lot of implications, and typically I only hear it used to talk about people working for the bad guy…