I would actually pay to see this.
I think many of us would.
Text BLOOD to (555)555-5555 if you want to see blood in the water before the billionaire is thrown in. One drop of blood for every 100,000 texts!
I'd like to see Kevin O'Leary (not a billionaire) thrown in before Mark Cuban (an actual billionaire)
Once the novelty has worn off:
The Bullpen
It's the exact same show, except with an angry bull in a pen.
I'd definitely watch.
And cops instead of billionaires?
Stop, I can only get so erect.
What is this? A bull for ants? 🖊️
Ummm… sharks don’t eat people. More people die by being hit by coconuts than by sharks.
Toss some coconuts and ill-tempered Bass in there!
Yeah but more people have seen Jaws then an actual nature documentary
Sharks eat seals but somehow human doesn't cut it for them? Picky eaters I guess
I've never understood why it's called Shark Tank. The UK one is called Dragon's Den, and to me it makes sense, because dragons hoard gold, but sharks don't do anything like that as far as I know.
You and your business are bait for the "Sharks" to see who is willing to take a bite first, often causing competition. Probably based on divers using shark cages than swimming in an aquarium but "Shark Cage" doesn't hit the same and is likely copyrighted
It's derived from the word shark as business jargon, typically used to refer to a stingy yet wealthy investor who will require some extra convincing in order to go along with an idea.
Part of the: "Jaws is more prominent in pop culture than actual shark facts" bullshit that keep people thinking that sharks are the embodiment of evil.
Which is why going in front of such investors has been referred to in the business World as, swimming with the sharks.
Personally I like the Dragon's Den name better but I see why it wouldn't fly in america. The name sounds quite mystical and could easily be mistaken for a martial arts program or Eastern fantasy flick.
That and Americans tend to see billionaires and millionaires in a positive light, often prayed around as examples of the kind of people you should aspire to be. The kind of evil associated with sharks is more of a primal hunger that needs to be satiated (so "cool evil"), whereas dragons or more intentional and calculated kind of evil. (So "bad evil")
Admittedly as the buying power of the dollar decreases and we see more and more how countries outside of America tend to do astronomically better in terms of health care affordability and labor rights, the image of billionaires as the upper crust, the creme de La Creme...
Has definitely shifted a bit say the very least.
I mean if you want proof of that just look at what popular opinion of Donald Trump was in the 90s compared to today.
Back in the 90s he was the definition of corporate cool. Cameo appearances of the Donald in things like Pizza Hut commercials and several pieces of film media such as Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Home Alone 2, and a little known Bo Derrick comedy called Ghosts Can't Do it..
Were typically seen as positive and the idea of Donald Trump running for president was taken about as seriously as the idea of Oprah Winfrey running for president.
Nowadays, he may be the most hated man in America.
It's because in American capitalism being a predator is considered a virtue.
I think that would be unethical to the sharks.
We'll only use sharks that are assholes.
Its best not to interfere with our oceans at all.
Then we'll make robot sharks without AI to guarantee there's no suffering for anyone other than the billionaires
First you need someone rich enough to fund the aquarium, maybe some multi-multi-millionaire?
We tell them it's to kill the poor for their entertainment and then pull the old switcheroo.
Or a poker-like game where they raise funds one after another before it's time to open cards and drop the loser into the tank on a livestream. Would it be hard to lure Elon in? Would he find a way to talk himself out?
I think they'd just pull the switcheroo on us and everyone would just cheer because blood!
Kickstarter. We all pitch in.
Imagine this would happen and all billionaires are gone. In which world would we live?
A much better one.
That's implied. How will the world change? Who prevents the second line in command from grabbing power? How will regular people spend their time?
There would be far less money hoarded, which means more in circulation and a more robust economy. And if the "second line in command" starts hoarding, they can go in the shark tank too.
How do you envision the mre robust economy?
Hoarding on its own shouldn't be a problem with fiat currencies. The Fed keeps interest rates low until there is some inflation.
If billionaires keep money in a bank, the bank lents that money to those who spend it.
If money should be spent more wisely, everybody could spend their income each month more wisely.
So, what exactly do you want the billionaires to do?
So, what exactly do you want the billionaires to do?
Get eaten by sharks.
Nuff said. It's like they didn't see the post in the first place. 🤦
I think you're nuts. Killing the rich isn't going to make your life better because someone will always replace them. You will never see a cent of wealth that way unless you remove a lot more than just "the rich".
Anyone who replaces them can go in the shark tank too. Then we take all of their money and start giving everyone a universal basic income.
Replacing capitalism with a different system would be much better then just killing whoever gets rich next.
¿Por que no los dos?
Because in an ideal society there would be no need to hoard wealth.
Sure, but we have to do something with the people who did hoard wealth at the expense of the rest of us. That can't be forgiven.
The issue isn't that rich people exist they are hoarding and I've seen him out of wealth, causing Millennials and gen Z to have a lower quality of life than their parents
At this point, we have the series syndicated, and we play it on PBS as an educational reminder of what happens when you don't share.
Yes I know cable is dead...
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