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Thank you for the thorough summary. It sounds remarkably exploitative and horrible. These are adults and are free to decide for themselves regarding whether t
by appleflaxen 6y ago
Thank you for the thorough summary.
It sounds remarkably exploitative and horrible.
These are adults and are free to decide for themselves regarding whether to participate, but I am happy to have your summary, so that I don't have to support the production with viewership.
- laurent92 6y agoI’m sorry, no, I’m extremely liberal in general, but this can’t be left to supply/demand/personal ethics. This show is an infringement on ILO’s 1930 treaty on slavery. (or rather the UN’s 1957 treaty, since the 1930 one excluded men aged 18-49).
- bdowling 6y ago> This show is an infringement on ILO’s 1930 treaty on slavery. How is voluntary, compensated participation in a TV game show comparable to slavery?
- laurent92 6y agoIt’s like giving $100 to two hobos to fight. In fact, it is exactly this, with a higher prize, and on TV. The family father who is hiding his frostbites on his feet from the doctor, accepting to be voluntarily handicapped for life (or dead right there) in hope his children will survive, he’s not free to work. Plus you don’t organize hobos to fight just for the show. You can get hurt in military or in oil, but at least you are being useful to something. Being a gladiator to willing die on the TV arena, 1500 years after the Romans quit doing it, we can’t let that happen.