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> Except that this isn't targeting people who have financial need. I don’t think it’s fair to say that. The person who “won” the chance has two young kids and
by prepend 4y ago
> Except that this isn't targeting people who have financial need.
I don’t think it’s fair to say that. The person who “won” the chance has two young kids and a spouse. I’m fairly sure he really needs $500k. If he’s like a typical person he has student loans, bills and lots of debt.
It would be kind of perverse to have someone compete who didn’t really need the money.
If you ask a random human to degrade themself for $500k there’s a power imbalance as most people don’t lead a zen existence where that’s not a life changing amount of money.
- gjulianm 4y agoBut that person was randomly selected among subscribers. And it’s not “need” in the sense that it doesn’t look like he’d suffer serious consequences from rejecting the challenge. It’s not like “if I reject this job I’ll be homeless”. The issue with your line of thought is that it leads to concluding that most jobs are unethical.