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Throw the oligarchs in a shark tank and they have to convince five people who work for them to pull them out.
Is this idea too violent for Mastodon?
Nope. Self defense.
@cassandracorvid @Thomashegna no as long as the sharks can have fricking lasers.
@Thomashegna How is this not a thing already?
@elite @Thomashegna Hear me out: Undercover Boss, but at the end the employees get to vote on whether or not the CEO has learned a lesson.
If they vote no, a trap door opens beneath the CEO, swallowing them forever. All of the CEO’s assets are divided up amongst the employees. The amount each employee gets is inverse to their salary, i.e. the lowest paid workers get the biggest shares.
If they vote yes, the trap door doesn’t open and the CEO gets to walk away. But they still lose all assets.
@Thomashegna Great idea but I really wish this had alt text.
@justanotherblue yeah, I'm reluctant to boost non-captioned images.
@Thomashegna
@Thomashegna Very into that.
@Thomashegna it's elections
Now that show I would actually watch!
@Thomashegna Even better if they have to give the panelists massive equity shares in order to seal the deal.
@Thomashegna link to the original so I can boost that instead of a screenshot?
@erinishimoticha @Thomashegna the original is on Twitter
@erinishimoticha sorry, I've abandoned the Twitter dumpster fire. My only interaction with it is screenshots of clever posts made by other people.
No apology needed.
You're doing it right.
@wren @erinishimoticha @Thomashegna
They’re not: if they were doing it right they’d be avoiding Twitter AND adding alt-text to the screenshot 
@AeonMach @erinishimoticha @Thomashegna
My apologies. I was referring to avoiding Twitter. Adding alt-text is also important.
Attaching a How-To link for those who are still learning.
𝕁𝕖𝕟𝕟@Thomashegna wasn’t this essentially Undercover Boss?
Except in Undercover Boss, the rich bastards had nothing to lose. Except maybe face.
I think the spirit of this toot implies the potential loss of their ill-gotten riches.
@Thomashegna Please don’t copy #Twitter posts here. This is not Twitter. For reasons.
@scenario I thought it was better to give the original poster credit. I encourage all posters to give creators credit.
Read another way, I could see your comment as encouraging me to model Elon's ban of Mastodon content on Twitter by refusing to post Twitter content on Mastodon. By encouraging people to emulate Elon's insecurity to competition, we become the thing we dislike. I'm not going to pretend that a part of the internet doesn't exist.
I am behind this 100%
@Thomashegna #AltText Screenshot of a post by @davenewworld_2@twitter.com that says "I need a reverse Shark Tank where US oligarchs explain why they deserve billions of dollars while standing in front of 5 people living in poverty who work for them."
@Thomashegna Better idea: my CEO does my job for a week. Five dollars says he’s on Cymbalta and Klonopin and whimpering to himself in the toilet by Wednesday.
@Thomashegna I would only watch this if the five people are able to drop the oligarchs into an actual tank full of sharks
@Thomashegna @coolandnormal This sounds suspiciously like how Undercover Boss gets pitched to the bosses. Just without any consequences for them
@simon_w @Thomashegna I've seen one episode of that ever. At the end the business owner was like "omg, the employees I've met actually work! Like they actually... Work. Mind blown! None of my friends are going to believe this. These two specific working class people must be huge exceptions. I'm going to give these two specific employees I met on camera a bonus, because I am a hero."
@coolandnormal @Thomashegna that’s essentially the show, yup. Address the issue faced by a couple of employees rather than the systematic issues they’ve caused that lead to the individual issues.
@Thomashegna Call it Class War and put some ninja warrior objectives in it and that's entertainment baby!
@Thomashegna this would be show to watch 
@Thomashegna and if they fail, dropped into a literal shark tank.
@Thomashegna There are only a few, so eventually it would be expanded to millionaires and then everybody. There's nothing special about billionaries over hecto- deka- and single-digit millionaires. Eventually they come for everyone.
#EatTheRich
#AbolishCapitalism
Throw all the wealthy psychopaths in. Self defense.
@Thomashegna May not quite be the sort of 'tribunals' the far-right have been announcing, am I right?
@Thomashegna
Great idea for a comedy sketch that would have endless variations as new plans are suggested by old and new new oligarchs.
I would have the ordinary folks panel question the suggested business plans and models of oligarchs based on long-term social viability and/or street-smart common sense:
"I can see how this would work financially for you, but what about the karma from ignoring the common good? When others took your path, it ended in riots and revolutions."
@Thomashegna
Or: "I can see how you would make more money that way, but your clients will hate you, and nobody on my street can run a business that way."
@Thomashegna I'd share if it had alt text.
@Thomashegna We already had this. It's called a socialist revolution and we need more of them.
@Thomashegna i hope that they are really standing over a shark tank and workes could open the tramp if the explanations are not satisfactory.
@Thomashegna
Who is really on the "shark tank panel"? Consumers. Why not learn how they were so successful? If we ask a billionaire how they became wealthy their first answer won't be "short-change workers". No, they created business system(s) that delivered massive value, employed thousands, while sacrificing their time & assuming the financial risk.
You can choose to become wealthy too and influence your destiny but limiting beliefs may keep you poor.
Choose action over fantasy. They did.
@Gahrae Your rosy view of humankind is not supported by my experience. Intragenerational wealth allows for consequence-free failure--which then allows for the upper echelon to go unwinnowed.
"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops."
-Stephen J. Gould
@Thomashegna I don't understand being upset because other people are rich and wanting to take from their children. What does this fantasy achieve?
If I could attend that Shark Tank meeting and have a billionaire explain how they earned their success... I'd arrive early and prepared to take notes!
Rationalizing that success is being born to the right parents is a limiting belief that keeps people poor.
People would be better off if they emulated successful people.
Be rosy, you'll achieve more
@Gahrae If we cut to the root of this, it is actually not the idea of wealth that bothers me (though I can understand the misinterpretation). It is the idea that wealth is a mark of virtue, and poverty is an indication of laziness and indolence. I've met far too many counterexamples on both sides to see this as a black and white issue. And though people really ran with the 'shark' part of the tweet I quoted, it is really an opportunity to justify your worth.
@Gahrae I do appreciate the tenor of your comment! I shudder to think what the negative comments would have been like on Twitter . . .
@Thomashegna I’d totally watch at least a few episodes of that…
The sweat beading down their heads will be glorious!
@Thomashegna France did this once
@Thomashegna Hi.
Could you please add alt text description to this image ? It is really good and starts to be shared al lot. It would be nice if visually impaired people could read it too.
Since your server runs mastodon 4.0.2, it supports editing toots.
You cannot add alt text to an existing image but you can :
- edit your toot
- remove this image
- add it again with alt description
It won't affect the number of boosts and likes.
Thanks in advance.
@Thomashegna Halfway through the show, they’re joined by one of their EU colleagues who tell them how much better they’re paid and treated because of government regulation.
@Thomashegna I’m holding out for the reality show where they take a billionaire, make them work for minimum wage, find affordable housing, feed themselves and two children while paying for daycare and then have a minor medical emergency bankrupt them. Working name is “So you think you succeeded because you’re exceptional”.
@Thomashegna I'd never fucking miss this show!
