Friday 5 November 2010

The Apprentice and capitalism

So I was watching the Apprentice the other night, under the pretense of looking at good sales technique, but actually just finding amusement in the dearth of useless business garbage spouted by the majority of the contestants. Yes, admittedly there are occasionally two or three solid business minds in the melée of idiots who actually make it on to this programme, but what is most depressing is the attitude with which they approach the whole process.

I concede that a lot of the atmosphere and editing is formulated with the intention of creating a confrontational and conflicted atmosphere, but it just seems ridiculous that a supposedly intelligent self-made millionaire would choose to employ someone who starts throwing outrageous accusations around when they themselves failed to manufacture a sausage correctly. He surely would be much better off employing someone who is willing to accept that they have made mistakes and would be willing to move on? I would suggest that a variety of homeless people between the ages of 18-30 (provided that they were sober) would be able to put together a better business performance than these clowns who are already supposedly "leaders" in their field of business. melissa particularly made me question the calibre of these "successful" business people. How exactly did she succeed when she is completely incapable of working with others? Do us a favour Sir Allen, use these idiots for entertainment, but save the salary by employing none of them, and giving 100,000 to a worthy cause instead, rather than further inflating the egos of these useless business peacocks.

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