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Mr Beast is an evil guy that show how capitalisim can turn poor people into clowns to entertain rich people. (lemy.lol)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/unpopularopinion

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He is an evil individual who fails to address systemic issues or assist people for their own benefit.

As a game show host, he humiliates and exploits participants, boasting about his own virtues without any regard for the contestants.

Examples:

I believe legal intervention is necessary to limit his actions towards people and prevent him from exploiting them for personal gain.

Quick note: while I believe that results of some of his videos is good ( which he did to show how good of a person he is), that does not change the facts about his evil videos, the same way bezoz donations does not make him a good person.

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[–] Betch 21 points 8 months ago (1 children)

but I think OP means that this guy already has the means to make a difference but chooses to dangle it in front of needy people and make them dance for it rather than tackle poverty problems from a different angle

But then if he's not getting any returns from it, it's going to dry out.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Well the returns he gets are the views on his videos. People love to watch people fight to survive. So he pits them against each other in order to draw eyes (and therefore advertisers) while positioning himself as a “humanitarian” making “donations” out of the goodness of his heart. Obviously it’s working because his wealth is growing, not shrinking. That’s part of what I think makes it “evil” in OP’s eyes. If you’re profiting off of it, is it really charitable?

Edit: Oh wait, I can’t read. I see what you are saying. Disregard the above. I think you and I agree there. I don’t think it would be easy for him to just give all his money away for free because then it would be gone and people would still be poor

I’m just trying to play devil’s advocate

[–] Betch 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Hahah no yeah I do agree with you. I was just saying that if that's what OP is thinking then that's pretty silly.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I took the OP as saying: I think X is an evil, so I didn't do X. Therefore it is an evil, and so is the person doing X . MORAL PROJECTION