There's only 2 times when Proglodyte hates rich people: When they're greedy and

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

when they're generous.

Gravitycollapse (6,188 posts)

I was forced to watch Undercover Boss and that is some creepy, benevolent dictator shit...
   
Let's disregard, momentarily at least, how problematic it is that the president of the Utah Jazz chose to dress up like a bearded fat person and then act lazy and out of shape.

Just consider how his interactions with employees are a massive violation of privacy and trust, both as the head of a business as well as a human being. Then realize how he "gifts" 20 or 30 thousand dollars to a few of his victims at the end of the show and we're all expected to shed tears for his sacrifice, resolve and humanity. His enterprise is worth 525 million dollars, for God's sake.

I tried not to complain about it as I was with my family and they already see me as a political oddball. But, seriously, who comes up this crap?

ohheckyeah (7,572 posts)

1. I hate that show...

it's nothing but propaganda.

MADem (100,900 posts)

3. Noblesse Oblige, ain't it? In such a smarmy and condescending way, too~!

All it needs are ignorant, bent-over serfs clutching their caps and tugging at their forelocks, small dirty-faced children saying "Please sir may I have another," and servants on their knees sobbing over the few farthings that the lord has tossed their way.

It's very formulaic and it gets stale in a hurry. One cannot help but notice the difference between the lives of the serfs...ooops, I mean employees, and the lives of the rich bastards, who are usually shown with their families trying on their "disguises" (worst frigging disguises in the world, too--the first Godzilla rubber suit looked more realistic than some of those plastic wigs/staches) in intensely luxurious homes with fine furnishings, expensive cars, pools, million dollar landscaping, etc.

laundry_queen (6,528 posts)

5. I agree with your assessment

As for the OP - that's a good episode you saw. I cannot tell you how many episodes where all they get is a gift card to their favorite restaurant, or a cheap 3-day trip they've never been able to afford because of their crappy wages or some promise for a loan so they can open up a new franchise of their own. Really selfish petty 'bootstrap' bs. You can tell some of them don't want to give toooo much, because, well, that might make the workers LAZY or something.  As they retire to their estate, maids, cooks, gardeners, drivers and so on.

shaayecanaan (4,717 posts)

6. That bit at the end...

where the plebs file in before the boss and he says: "uh, I was really, uh, moved by your story about how you lost 4 kids in Iraq and then your house got repossessed so you had to come work for minimum wage, so I bought you a laptop". Bring back the guillotine, I say.

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The only rich people Proglodytes like are the ones that promise them more government power because they're so convinced of their innate superiority they think they will prevail in the Faustian bargain.

[Zathras]

The DUmbasses are just jealous that their boss doesn't give them rewards for doing a good job. In fact I doubt they would want their boss to go undercover and work with them. They'd probably get "Wallduded" for doing a piss poor job and bitching about how the man is keeping them down by not recognising their "brilliance".

[thundley4]

Let's disregard, momentarily at least, how problematic it is that the president of the Utah Jazz chose to dress up like a bearded fat person and then act lazy and out of shape.

He dressed up like half the DUmmies look everyday. And that's just the Wymen.

[JohnnyReb]

Democrat politicians are the richest people in Washington D.C., yet the DUmmies still vote for them simply because the democrats promise/give them just enough to survive until the next election.

Hell, if they would go to work and actually work they too might become the next person gifted for working hard. No worries, DUmmies do not believe in applying themselves to anything but more freebies.