Wow.... I think you're reading way too much into it. What is the issue you feel strongly about, exactly?
"another consumerist American show which main purpose is to preach that the solution to all problems in life is to throw money at them"?? How many are there? And what does "consumerist" mean ,anyway? The show doesn't claim to want to rid the world of poverty, it also does not preach that the solution is to throw money at them. These are just people that genuinely wanted to help the others. The fellow that was on yesterday also came from a not-so-wealthy upbringing, so I'm pretty sure he knew (or at least partly) what those people were going through. I'm also sure his life has changed a bit just for having to go through with it. Calma, it's just a TV show
-- Edited by Dogo at 18:36, 2008-12-11
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I saw the first episode and I hated that show!! Once again, another consumerist American show which main purpose is to preach that the solution to all problems in life is to throw money at them.
Instead of just giving the money to the "poor but nice" people on the show, the millionaires should commit to also making lifestyle changes that will actually refelect the commitment to the causes they say they support. Money should be the beginning, not the main focus in the show.
Sorry if I sound a bity preachy but I feel pretty strongly about the subject
In a nutshell.... They send a millionaire out to some bad area, to live for a week. There they meet people from the community and choose who to give money to. They have to gift a minimum of $100.000 in total, to one or several people. At the end of the show they come out, to the people they chose to give money to, and tell them who they really are, and give them a cheque for whatever they want to each person.
Yesterday the co-owner of DUB, and his wife, went out, and gave out $150.000 to three diff people + a new car (a wicked one, BTW) to one of the three. One ran a woman's shelter, the other a youth program, and I forget the third The emotions the people went through (including himself and his wife) were crazy. Very moving show
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Wow.... I think you're reading way too much into it.
And what does "consumerist" mean ,anyway?
