At one point, it is implied that the super-successful cut-throat scholar guy already had this kind of money and just pissed it away. They also implied that some form of vice or debauchery was behind a significant number of the participants' financial positions. Even the ultra-wealthy audience members are written as removed gamblers, hedonists, and gluttons - just ones able to stay above water.
There is a certain undertone to the show that suggests the prize money won't really satisfy or solidify their futures, because the underlying social ills are never addressed only exploited.
Correction: the prize was not a billion dollars.
It was 38 million.
400 people ran into their brutal deaths to achieve the wealth of a 2nd generation mid-sized business owner.
All through the show I was looking up the amounts of money and being like “That’s a lot of money, but it’s not that much”
Yeah it's like the average lottery of a small US state
At one point, it is implied that the super-successful cut-throat scholar guy already had this kind of money and just pissed it away. They also implied that some form of vice or debauchery was behind a significant number of the participants' financial positions. Even the ultra-wealthy audience members are written as removed gamblers, hedonists, and gluttons - just ones able to stay above water.
There is a certain undertone to the show that suggests the prize money won't really satisfy or solidify their futures, because the underlying social ills are never addressed only exploited.