Unpopular Opinion

6315 readers

72 users here now

Welcome to the Unpopular Opinion community!

How voting works:

Vote the opposite of the norm.

If you agree that the opinion is unpopular give it an arrow up. If it's something that's widely accepted, give it an arrow down.

Guidelines:

Tag your post, if possible (not required)

If your post is a "General" unpopular opinion, start the subject with [GENERAL].
If it is a Lemmy-specific unpopular opinion, start it with [LEMMY].

Rules:

1. NO POLITICS

Politics is everywhere. Let's make this about [general] and [lemmy] - specific topics, and keep politics out of it.

2. Be civil.

Disagreements happen, but that doesn’t provide the right to personally attack others. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Please also refrain from gatekeeping others' opinions.

3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.

Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.

4. Shitposts and memes are allowed but...

Only until they prove to be a problem. They can and will be removed at moderator discretion.

5. No trolling.

This shouldn't need an explanation. If your post or comment is made just to get a rise with no real value, it will be removed. You do this too often, you will get a vacation to touch grass, away from this community for 1 or more days. Repeat offenses will result in a perma-ban.

Instance-wide rules always apply. https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

253

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/[email protected]

134 comments fedilink hide all child comments

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.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

I avoid watching anything YT features with click bait such as this guy. I never have watched him and never will.

However, I'll add that this is basically the entire data-mining-stalkerware porn industry too. You're just watching some rich guy pay a top shelf hooker and recording it for narcissism while legally skirting human trafficking/prostitution charges in places like Los Angeles.

The real question is do we live in an authoritarian society where the person being exploited has no right to choose to be exploited. So long as Mr. Beast fully discloses his intentions, I think he has every right to exploit people. I also think, a wealth tax is needed, and a massive democratic overhaul is needed in the USA to solve very similar capitalist problems that stopped with Teddy Roosevelt. The era of Carnegie, Westinghouse, Edison, and others is extremely similar to the era of Bezos, Musk, Gates, Murdoch, and others. The billionaire class must be directly addressed and eliminated if we are going to solve the exploitation issue. This is the real problem, not the fact stupid people watch stupid nonsense for entertainment.