The BBC Is Making a Poor Person Reality Show Where They Pit Poor People Against Each Other To Win Money

The Guardian - The BBC has defended a new TV reality show pitting unemployed and low-paid workers against each other for a cash prize, which has been accused of echoing film the Hunger Games, arguing it is a “serious social experiment”. The show, called Britain’s Hardest Grafter, is seeking 25 of Britain’s poorest workers with applications limited to those who earn or receive benefits totalling less than £15,500 a year. The five-part BBC2 series will pit contestants against each other in a series of jobs and tasks with the “least effective workers” asked to leave until one is crowned champion. The winner will receive a cash prize of about £15,500, the minimum annual wage for workers outside London. An online petition objecting to the “degrading and exploitative game show format” was started on Change.org on Thursday and has so far attracted almost 4,000 supporters.

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See, this is what is wrong with snobby white people thinking they know everything and what’s good for the world. 4,000 signatures saying that this show is degrading and exploitative. Uhhhhh, what? It’s poor people with shitty jobs given the opportunity to prove they are worth a dick. Otherwise they’d be at the Burger King getting french fry grease in their hair from now until the keel over and die in a hole. Giving poor people and minimum wage workers the chance to be on TV and shine is like God reaching down from heaven and personally giving each of them a handjob. Anyone who sees this otherwise is just trying to be some social justice warrior who deserves to be choke slammed til their head pops off.