Twisted New Reality Show Gives Poor People $101K, Forces Them To Either Keep It Or Give It To Even Poorer People
There’s a sick new reality TV series on CBS that makes whoever green-lit Keeping Up With The Kardashians look like a goddamn saint.
On Wednesday, CBS premiered The Briefcase, which hands struggling American families a briefcase filled with $101,000. But wait, there’s a fun little twist. Each family is then given the option of either keeping it or giving some or all of it to another needy family.
To help make the decision, the poor family is given heart-wrenching information about the lives of the people they could help. Damn, CBS. That’s just cruel – especially considering your top executives make more in a single day than the entire amount you’re giving away.
It’s the equivalent of handing a homeless man a hundred dollar bill, then going “Ah ah ah,” before showing him another homeless man around the corner with AIDS or Ebola or an absorbed fetal twin sticking out the side of his neck who shouts racial slurs at passersby.
Maybe the premise would be a little less fucked if in the end CBS awarded both families $101,000 and everybody learned a little something about giving and being thankful for what you have and shit. But that’s not the case. This show does nothing more than impose a false sense of relief on those who desperately need it, then force them to feel guilty and watch them squirm behind a rolling camera.
“LOL poor people” — CBS Execs..
[via Mic News]
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It’s like you didn’t even watch the fucking show before writing a shitty article about it. Two middle class families are given $100,000 and they each get to decide how much to keep or give away. But they are unknowingly giving it to each other and there’s $200,000 floating around between the two families. For example last week they both gave it all away so each family got $100,00. Not a bad deal at all.
10 years ago at 3:50 pmUntil you get one really nice family who gives it away, and then the other family is greedy and keeps their money, and now the greedy family has 200k and the nice family has a “way to be the better person” but gets nothing out of it.
10 years ago at 4:07 pmI wouldn’t call being a better person nothing…
10 years ago at 4:10 pm1. Look up what satire means.
10 years ago at 11:03 pm2. Take a finance class.
3. Dont be an ignorant fuck.
4. Repeat steps 1-3
This makes me mad to no content. Do the Lord’s work and give to those less fortunate, don’t make them feel worse about their situation than they already do.
10 years ago at 4:03 pm“This show does nothing more than impose a false sense of relief on those who desperately need it, then force them to feel guilty and watch them squirm behind a rolling camera.” So amateur porn?
10 years ago at 4:04 pmI laughed
10 years ago at 8:31 pmTip: skip to paragraph 3
10 years ago at 4:35 pmFinishing off the segment yelling “I’M RICH BIATCH!”
10 years ago at 9:44 am