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April 16th, 2014 at 4:34 pm
Burrben / As the Market Turns (or Capitalist Drama Series) –
Shark Tank, for me at least, has always been more fun because of the caustic whim of any of the sharks. Malefactors have always been more interesting than benefactors for some reason, and a greedy a-hole can sell a show to an audience sooooo much easier than some virtuous soul. That's where I come to this unique duality in my soul. On the one hand, it's frankly captivating to see the sharks, sitting like they're holding court as if they were economic nobles with their (scripted) holier-than-thou attitudes and looking at ideas for their own (scripted) amusement. On the other hand, it kills me to think about that show is that its almost conditioning its audience to think that if they have an idea that's relatively useful then the only way to make it work is sell it to a rich person whol'll demand 50%+ control over the idea because they're the only ones with the amount of capital necessary to move that idea to deploy it to market with any hope of profitability. Beyond that, it's a very period piece in that its constantly showcasing how some people are ready to give away all their control over their originality for a few bucks – and giving up on thousands to hundreds of thousands to millions – because desperate times have them discounting future earnings in favor of getting cash now.