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The system of employment is the problem. Drug dealers and police are employees and they cannot win. While the system has power employees have none. Mike, Bubbl
by kashkhan 4y ago
The system of employment is the problem. Drug dealers and police are employees and they cannot win. While the system has power employees have none.
Mike, Bubbles, Bunny, Omar, Hauk, etc are not employees or get out and they win or at least get out to live their own lives as they want.
Independent Entrepreneurship is the only way out. It may not work, but you have a chance,
- lupire 4y agoBubbles is a desperate addict. Omar is dead before 40 and was hiding his sexuality. These are not successful lives.
- kashkhan 4y agoEveryone dies. Better to live free and die young then have a long life as a slave.
- MichaelCollins 4y agoAll addicts are slaves. Don't glorify it.
- kashkhan 4y agobetter an addict than a slave to another man.
- MichaelCollins 4y agoI assure you, it is better to be a housed and healthy 'wage slave' than a homeless heroin addict.
- woodruffw 4y agoThere are many valid interpretations of The Wire's themes, but I dare to suggest that "hustle grindset" is not one of them.
- kashkhan 4y agoIts not hustle grindset. Its be out and do what you want. Wage slaves usually work harder to survive. You could go out and live in a van and not hustle at all.
- woodruffw 4y agoThese are your views, which are not particularly reflected in the show: Bubbles spends most of the 4th season being brutalized because he's "too" independent. Hauk is tossed around by political winds, while his friend Carter advances while doing good police work in the context of a larger department. Omar, as another commenter point out, just dies. Bunny is spiked and left out to dry by the bosses, and is mostly characterized by his own nihilism in the 3rd and 4th seasons. Not all survive, and those that do do not particularly thrive.
- kashkhan 4y agolike i said, there is only a chance on the outside. inside there is no chance, but most people are happier on inside and too afraid to leave.
- hitekker 4y agoPeople see what they want. That goes double for shows people don't understand but are popular for reasons they also don't understand. The article that OP posted, for example, is a shallow application of the Wire's insight onto software engineering. The solution it recommend is to try to be more aware about gaming metrics, which is as useful in the long run as the phrase "don't be evil". It's telling that most of the comments here don't invoke the article and instead are talking about their own interpretations of the Wire.
- UncleMeat 4y agoHerc is not a character to be emulated. He is a brutal and vicious officer when he is a cop and when he gets out he does private security for an organization that causes ever more harm to society.
- robocat 4y ago> Independent Entrepreneurship is the only way out Entrepreneurs are systematic slaves too - that is one point of The Wire. Everyone is embedded in a society, a system, and our choices take us down paths that control the rulesets that apply to us. You can escape certain rules, but you get other rules in exchange (in my experience).
- kashkhan 4y agotrue, but i am not ready or able to call for the end of westphalian nation states, capitalism and the new world order.