D’oh. I’ve edited it so now your comment doesn’t make sense. Flight -> fight.

Bum Flights: a show about trying to find among 100 unhoused people any of them who are capable of learning flight sims and eventually becoming pilots. Like crop duster level pilots realistically. Airline pilot certification is probably too far along to be entertaining.

Exploitative? Still probably exploitative. Guaranteed to be at least marginally better than whatever the Beast Studios people are making

Mr Beast’s Argentine Death Flights

Is this like flying super kids, just with adults instead?

Yeah people would watch jumping gymnastics

But for 5k a day.. Yeah, I'd waste three months of my life for that kind of money

I watched a video about it, and what's interesting to me is that he had an enormous budget for this Squid Game remake. He spent it on setting up hundreds of cameras, building a whole set where the game would take place, hired all kinds of camera operators... but didn't do even basic play-testing of the games he was going to have people play.

As a result, some challenges that were supposed to last for an hour or so ended up taking more than 12 hours. Some challenges that were supposed to eliminate half the contestants instead eliminated over 90%. Some challenges didn't work because people refused to eliminate their friends.

It could be a Cirrus Vision Jet.

Edit: holy shit they've gone up in price to $3.2M. Damn inflation hitting private jets too. Nobody's immune

Look at Mr. Fancy Pants over here who knows about private jets

I looked this up. It was a Hawker 400XP, worth about $2.4 million. Yes, it's a tiny jet.

https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/nation-world/captain-treezy-detained-paraguay-marijuana-drug-trafficking-case/507-bfa6fa1f-57d6-4699-a661-ab176ad0aeea

Elementary teacher here. Can confirm.

Ahhh, I always wondered who watches the super high views, super shitty clickbait garbage. Turns out it's the same people who play the f2p-but-it's-all-microtransactions games.

Depressing.

I was those kids 20 years ago, creators definitely went bizarro with their stuff.

Right??? His eyes freak me the fuck out.

At least Mr Beast is giving decent payouts... Meanwhile UK has stuff like get married to a stranger and pressured into having sex or just outright raped. There is no payout, all you seem to get is the wedding, a week holiday and a few weeks in an apartment block.

Huh, a hyper-reality reference out in the wild.

I feel like there are various pieces of cinema pointing out why this is very fucking problematic

Some dude who agreed to one of these extended challenges released a video exposing the behind the scenes abuse they do to get you to stay as long as possible so they get more content from you. Their whole investment of time and hype isn’t worth it if you leave after a few days like you’re tempted to. It was pretty disturbing, I believe it’s still on YouTube.

The only set ups that aren’t as abusive imo are the ones that can only last so long and are in public. I believe one was whoever keeps their hand on the car the longest wins the car. That one is pretty harmless with a decent pay off.

I call this the "no literal gun pointed at head" fallacy.

That's precisely the point of the proplem: he exploits misery and dreams of wealth in a society that by design creates misery and glorifies money.

Imagine someone neeeding the money to save an ill relative. Would you still call it"voluntarily"?

And all those kids who dream of getting rich by suffering on video, what kind of value is that promoting?

It would be pointless if they had no way to leave early. The entire premise is that they have to voluntarily endure the situation for the reward.

Sounds like you haven't watched Black Mirror. Most episodes are worth a watch, but for this conversation, I recommend starting with Series 7 Episode 1.

holy flip. I really wish he just donated the money instead of torturing people for it.

Every cop is a criminal, and all the sinners saints.

No, the cop is the criminal

I keep spiders in the basement to keep all the boys away.