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I get the feeling in the UK we idolise wealth in entrepreneurship more than the US. People talk about Musk and his electric cars and space ships, Zuckerberg fo
by TomGullen 13y ago
I get the feeling in the UK we idolise wealth in entrepreneurship more than the US.
People talk about Musk and his electric cars and space ships, Zuckerberg for Facebook, Bill Gates for Microsoft, Steve Jobs for Apple, etc. Here in the UK no one knows what any of the Dragons really do, except that they are all wealthy and we should admire them mostly for that.
- tehwalrus 13y agoI don't know anyone from the UK who idolises the dragons. Come to that, I don't know anyone who watches the show, even.
- pessimizer 13y ago>Come to that, I don't know anyone who watches the show, even. Then you should know that your experience isn't very representative, because the ratings for the show can be objectively confirmed.
- tehwalrus 13y agoI don't think anyone knows a representative sample of the population.
- pessimizer 13y agoBut you have evidence that your sample is not representative in exactly the area that you're discussing.
- cs02rm0 13y agoMeaden's a trailer park owner who tried and failed miserably to do some dancing, Bannatyne runs a gym, Hoppen lines cushions up, Jones is the only one who actually has any money despite the only thing I know he's behind is expansys.com (I suppose that backs the HTC accessories store so I have used it) and Linney... well, apparently has something to do with cloud computing but when he first appeared I looked him up and didn't recognise anything he'd been involved in. I'm not surprised no one idolises them. Especially Meaden.
- tehwalrus 13y agoThey have names? And they're not called "Smaug" and "Alduin" and "Parthonaax"?