DOES MONEY CARE, AND DO TEARS ADD VALUE?

 



“Money doesn’t care; your tears don’t add value.”

Kevin O’Leary (on reality TV show – ‘Shark Tank’)

 

Those of us, who started something on our own, to earn our bread and butter – yes, we were always called ‘Self-employed’. We were the traditional entrepreneurs who ran some businesses or professions, and went about making them grow slowly and steadily. And, yes, while most of us went about slowly and steadily, like the proverbial tortoises, some shot up with lightening speed… These Hares were hailed as ‘tycoons’ or Business Mughals’…

That story sounds like a story from the B & W movie era in this world flooded with new vocabulary – ‘Start-ups’, ‘Dragon’s Den’ and ‘Shark Tank’. Young boys and girls are hooked on to this kind of – often brash, ruthless – TV shows. So many of them swear by these shows or the men and women that host them…

Well, I haven’t watched even a single episode of ‘Dragon’s Den’ (Canadian TV show) or ‘Shark Tank’ (American TV show). But, I have heard endless the ‘animated’ stories about them from the young and old viewers…

So, am I being a closed-minded, an old-fashioned, simpleton?

Frankly, I prefer to be referred to that way…





Kevin O’Learly, I am told, is the man responsible to make the shows – both ‘Dragon’s Den’ and ‘Shark Tank’ – insanely popular through his cold-blooded approach towards the participants. To me, anything that shocks or tears up participants, through high-voltage brashness or emotions, is the selling recipe of every reality show out there…

For eons, people like you and I have gone about doing our little business or profession things without watching this high-voltage drama on televisions… The world amazingly thrived and has come this far. So, now, when someone like Kevin O’Leary evangelizes, cold-bloodedly, his business gospel:

“You may lose your wife; you may lose your dog… Your mother may hate you. None of those things matter. What matters is, that  you achieve success and become free… Then, you can do whatever you like.”…

Yes, when I hear that, I wonder what kind of gospel that is!

Anyway, who cares about what I wonder… There are enough believers in Kevin’s gospel… They love to be comforted with his blunt message every time they cry: “Money doesn’t care; your tears don’t add value.”

I still wonder what that really means…


 

GERALD D’CUNHA

 

Pic’s: Pixabay

Video: TheEllenShow

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