Shark Tank

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Is that show where several billionaires consider potential investments in upstart companies.

Now again, I am not against the private sector but sometimes I run into what simply amounts to sheer greed.

So these two guys in one episode made these stupid fucking looking fake fur animal hats, and I mean Trump tower gaudy. Marketed to the Aspin skiers/snow borders crowd. But not even that bothered me. One of the  guys was asked how much it cost to make, he responded "$29 per unit, but we sell it for $99."

That, that right there is the fucking problem. Not the making the profit, but the outrageous gap between cost and charge. The other thing the company claimed was that it donated a portion to helping protect endangered species. Sounds nice on the surface but I don't think many people know how much actually goes to doing that, verse the "donation" going mostly to promotion. Not to mention corporations also get a tax break for that donation, so really they aren't spending a ton of money on it at all.

Why the everlasting fuck do you care WHAT the markup is on a fake fur hat?  It's a luxury item.  If you want go all outrage-y, direct it at pharmaceutical companies, or the ag industry, or baby supplies.

Trust me - the downtrodden masses wouldn't be any worse off if the markup on these hats was eighty thousand percent.  This is a pretty stupid thing to get in a twist over.

Boru

edit:  Umm...yeah, what Thena said.