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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
I will say that the hurrah over this is a little outsized.
Yes, many rank/file workers in the Bahamas got ****ed, but did anyone notice the tenor of the workers? Many of them did come across as "hey, lets milk the rich Americans..." It makes for a fairly interesting argument both for and against dependency theory, but it was an interesting takeaway nontheless. And it's not as though these were folks who quit their jobs to come work for MacFarland for a year; these were mostly day laborers who lost out on a few bucks that they wouldn't have had either way had MacFarland not tried to dupe a bunch of idiots. It's a screw job, but it's no sort of tragedy writ large.
And most of those defrauded were a bunch of snobbish, rich assholes who are EXACTLY the kind of people I like seeing separated from their money - folks that largely didn't earn it anyway. A whole lot of "daddy's money" was flushed down the toilet here.
There are a handful of figures who did truly get boned. The woman who ran the restaurant and plowed all her savings into it to get the festival workers fed - that sucks hard. And yes, it always sucks to work for free. But this is more akin to a hysterically convoluted and ultimately failed Kickstarter project than it is a human tragedy.
And at the very least, the victims in this case weren't disproportionately downtrodden to begin with. A lot of fools and their money were parted here.
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I watched both the Netflix and Hulu ones.
What got to me wasn’t necessarily the effect of it but how far it actually got before the wheels came off.
I barely even remembered it happening. I am so far removed from the social media culture that it totally flew right by my radar. The fact that it was such an epic ****ing disaster was entertaining for me because I was unfamiliar with the story.
The appalling thing to me was nobody anywhere was like “Nah. I’m out.” From what they were promising to what was coming together, I’d have set out to distance myself that ****fest far sooner than virtually anybody else in either production. Even beyond the employees if I was a vendor or contractor when shit started going sideways I’d have gotten my money upfront.
I’m admittedly pretty naive regarding shenanigans ****heads pull but this was obviously a ****fest far sooner than the day of and its remarkable that he kept the group together as long as he did.
That’s what was interesting to me.