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The problematic part is that Mr Beast offers little if any critical reflection about the systems that create wealth inequality, pollution, etc. and even less re
by CaptArmchair 4y ago
The problematic part is that Mr Beast offers little if any critical reflection about the systems that create wealth inequality, pollution, etc. and even less regarding his own role as a perceived philanthropist within that context.
It's not that it's inherently morally wrong to clean up the ocean, open a free bank or handing someone 500k for staying 100 days in a 100ft circle. It's the manifest obliviousness of not challenging the system and the premises that allow him to make his videos that's - industries generating single-use plastics, people not able to take out a mortgage,... - which is the issue.
His videos aren't in any way a social commentary. They are nothing more then entertainment, and they don't pretend to be anything else. That's what makes all of this morally questionable.
- sumedh 4y ago> Mr Beast offers little if any critical reflection about the systems that create wealth inequality Why should he?
- CaptArmchair 4y agoFor the exact same reason why we teach little kids to throw their litter in the garbage bin instead of the ground, and hope that it will stick into adulthood: a range of values and ideas that display a due sense of caring and compassion.
- sumedh 4y ago> and hope that it will stick into adulthood Littering is often a criminal offense in many places and/or you have to pay a fine so you are comparing apples and oranges here.
- ryan93 4y agoPeople don't want a world utterly suffused with politics. You are doing your movement harm by expecting it.
- CaptArmchair 4y agoI didn't know parenting was suffused by politics, but apparently here we are.
- mcv 4y agoEveryone should, but he seems to be particularly in a position to do so.
- sumedh 4y ago> Everyone should, Why though?
- greatquux 4y agoExactly - we all don't have to be doing that all the time. And MrBeast does not choose random people or even poor people for these challenges, he chooses only his own subscribers - people who are already interested in this content and presumably watch it regularly and are delighted to be in one of the videos.