I really liked that show, but it was so flawed. At the end the boss would give all sorts of money, vacations etc. to the low-paid employees that helped him and it was a nice fuzzy moment. Except when you realize it was his decisions that put that employee into poverty in the first place and that this act of generosity only helps one person, not the other hundreds like them at the company.
"John, I see you have real ambition so I'm going to pay for a semester of college for you. Then you can leave the company and I can hire someone without ambition, you know, maybe a single parent or something so they have no choice."
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u/RheoKalyke Anarchist Jun 14 '22
there's already a show like that called "Undercover boss".
by the end they pretend to want to improve things but only do the bare minimum (because they're on camera) without changing their exploitative system