the one with will smith i think. CMON I NEED TO RADICALIZE SOME KIDS OVER HERE!!!!
This is the biggest takeaway from that movie. It makes for a compelling drama, but even the most cursory understand of statistics will tell you that cases like his are actually one in a million - that is to say, they're so uncommon that they're essentially a fantasy.
The world we live in is far, far less rewarding of hard work and perseverance than movies like these make it out to be.
I... could have guessed, but i need more firepower to own the fucking LIBS in that classroom!!!!
The only person I am consistently capable of owning is myself. Owning libs?Unfortunately I am of no use to you in this regard, have a nice day
what if he made his kid sleep in a train station mens room and he didnt get the finance bro job?
what if there were two guys making their kids sleep in a train station mens room so they could compete for the same finance bro job and only one of them could get it?
forging a brighter tomorrow through kids sleeping in train station mens rooms
thats the only thing i remember about that movie except that i hated it
Your second point hits it on the head: chance plays a far greater roll in our lives under Capitalism than we like to admit, and the consequences of flunking are devastating.
that was just the point where i expected the movie to go hold up this shit has gone too far maybe theres a problem with this system if you need to make your kid sleep in a fucking train station mens room for a dice roll at getting ahead but nope just stirring strings at the fresh princes brave sacrifice for a finance bro job
fucking r/upliftingnews the movie
I mean shit yeah, it literally is that isn't it. A milllion dollar remake of all the horseshit "feel good" stories you see on local news.
Jesus Christ. Why do people think it's okay to be patronising pieces of shit to the homeless?
In the hope Gardner’s story would inspire the down-trodden citizens of Chattanooga, Tennessee to achieve financial independence and to take greater responsibility for the welfare of their families, the mayor of Chattanooga organized a viewing of the film for the city’s homeless.
Patrick Bateman standing over a homeless person telling them to get a job.
I hate this fucking movie, not only because of the whole "you just need to pull yourself by your bootstraps, everything is possible if you believe and try" take .But the whole premise being pursuing the happiness and implying happiness == money The movie ends after he gets this stupid job it implies that now that he is rich they are happy, completely moving past the fact that the kid suffered a lot of trauma and his parents are divorced but I guess he is happy because he has a rich father now
Lots of good answers, maybe this angle is useful: what economic purpose did his job serve? And does that job deserve to be so richly compensated? Was his job more socially necessary than say, cleaning a hotel room?
He was selling stocks to people, that's it. But what actual value is being created here? Sure he's helping his company make more profit, but where is that profit coming from? Yep, right from the customers. The movie never shows you the sweet old lady who put everything into the stocks he sold her and then lost it all.
I've known a lot of stock brokers. Every single one was absolute scum. Every single one didn't give a shit about what they were selling, it was literally just get someone to buy their shit. Sure, you can make a lot of money as a broker, it's certainly "meritocracy". Working in sales in any industry under capitalism is usually fairly meritocratic, that's something that's kind of unique to sales. But that wealth comes directly out of the pockets of other people.
Under socialism we don't need stockbrokers.
Also, stock brokers are bad at their job. Every study shows that stock brokers can only beat the odds by cheating. Just buying some index fund and not touching it has far better returns.
He doesn't even do what he is paid to do. Hsi job is to make rich pwople feel special.
The gimmick isn't how heart-warming it is to see a guy make it.
It is tonsee how hard he worked to make it, in a world where everyone else went to a party school and got that job through a parent's friend.
How nothing about him changed. He can do the math to solve a rubix cube in his head. He didn't learn anything or become better to get the job.
It is just through luck. Luck he was in the right place at tbe right time. Luck the guy wass off qualudes and liked the colors. And luck that he is at the point in thr busienss cycle where the stock market is makibg money. If this movie was set in 08 say, he would have eneed up back in the train station after defrauding some little old ladies of their holmes.
There are several stories of people getting charged with child abuse for leaving their kids in the car during job interviews.
Also for leaving their kids at mall food courts while they interviewed at stores right across the way, also leaving their kids in the stores they're interviewing at
It is possible some people in the internship program as him were in a similar position. They did not get the job. Anybody has the chance to succeed, but at least some people won't. Under this system, there will always be some people who have to raise their kids while sleeping in a subway bathroom.
