Reply #20: America IS exploitation.. We always HAVE been [View All]

[SoCalDem]

The fact that so many people are so desperate, that they will go on national tv and humiliate themseles is the problem..

In the 50's, my grandmother would get her coffee and hankie and blubber like a baby every afternoon when "Queen for a Day" was on. These were mostly Appalachian-poor women who would grovel and "compete" for a "BRAND NEW MAYTAG WRINGER WASHING MACHINE"..or "A NEW AMANA REFRIGERATOR"...or any number of things that most of us took for granted....because WE had them already.

Now, we have people who :

grovel for make-overs
grovel for recording contracts
grovel for "faux-romance"
grovel for "THE job"
grovel for a car
grovel for home improvements..


These are all things that "real people" used to be able to do for themselves, but now-adays "real people" just do not have the money necessary to even do home improvements,and we have all been sold a bill of goods.. If we can ONLY get "our story" on TV, everything will be wonderful, and our lives will be good..

Springer's show was crap, but he never pretended that he was "curing cancer". He knew it was an exploitation show, but I doubt that he ever had a lack of "contestants". If people are willing to cheapen themselves, there will ALWAYS be someone on the corner handing out dollar bills..