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In this short fiction story, set in the near future, we follow the dire circumstances of a man suffering from aortic valve disease whose only hope of surviving is winning the world's biggest game show.
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Genre: Education
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Top Comments of this video!! :3
Wouldn't it be weird if we lived in the richest country in the history of the world and we didn't provide adequate medical care for citizens? Truly a disgusting dystopia.
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It's amazing this isn't super obvious to everyone already. We are living in the black mirror already.
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This makes an excellent point. To survive we are often compelled to cooperate with and even show obeisance to cruel elitists with no more right to hold our fate in their hands than ourselves. What a reality.
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A very deep message, but a very sad reality for the people in the world.
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Two years ago, at one of the lowest points in my life, this channel has been a source of hope and peace for me.
I'm glad there's still some form of humanity amongst the chaos found in social media.
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Sounds just like the hunger games. Whilst most of the story is fictional, the most dystopian part of it is true. As an Australian who has access to free healthcare, the part that stood out as most dystopian to me is that if you can't afford life saving medical treatment in America, then tough luck, they just let you suffer and die.
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I generally dont comment, but this video left me speechless. It shows how at personal level, life is precious, but at humanity level that same life is just an ordinary like a bag of stars in sky.
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The saddest thing about this story is that it's less fiction and more real then it should be.
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I am from Ethiopia and I gotta say that there's something slightly similar (underline slightly) taking place here. So, there are shows that air weekly in afternoons and evenings (similar to late shows) that are mainly entertainment related. They feature news, comedy and songs performed by famous singers...and one additional thing. Near the end, there is always a segment dedicated to a video of someone on social media who's suffering from some medical trauma and can't afford treatment. Subtitled with the video, there's always the bank account number of the person in need. Then the host of the show will comment on how tragic this is and then, very politely, ask the audience to donate money to that bank number. Now, I am in now way saying that this is completely bad or anything like that... I said it's only slightly similar, after all. It's just that the number of videos that make it to the show is low (like 5 or so at any one time) and that's out of a pool of patients nationwide that can't afford treatment. ( The doctor to patient ratio in Ethiopia is like 1 doctor for every 10,000 patients... One of the worst in the world) There are some lotteries with better odds than that... What's more, I don't think they randomly select donation pleas from social media. They only present a select few videos that have already went viral on social media (like FB and YT, platforms that monetize viewership) and you can imagine how a viral video could increase their rating on TV (I'm not saying that's happening, just that it's a strong possibility). So....yeah, that sucks. And I don't think it's a long shot to say that there are a lot more places this could be happening...! Am I on point? or am I overreacting over something trivial? or worse, over something that's selfless and is actually helping a lot of people??? 🤷♂🤷♂🤷♂
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This is worse than the Running Man game show. A true 21st century horror.
The worst thing is I can easily see a sick show like this actually happening...
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in a way this reminds me of the burger king employee that got 250k on go fund me after getting a lil $5 gift bag for never missing work for 27 years.
it’s heartwarming but how many other people are posting into the void for assistance?
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This video should be a launchpad for showing how generally people use 'empathy' to build up their own self esteem and how it rarely is true empathy.
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I love a story in which the protagonist doesn’t win. It’s painfully humbling.
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I was scrolling through comments thinking "so glad this doesn't yet happen in real life" when I saw people mentioning mr Beast... I didn't know who that was and my jaw dropped when I searched him and saw that he has several hundred million views for humiliating people.
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Who else thought this story was going to end with him watching his own episode on TV and then him seeing that he did in fact pick the right cup but the producers did some trickery and somehow moved the ball from cup 8 to cup 3 after the cups had stopped moving?
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I think not having universal health care is way more cruel than this show which is just the product of the original problem. I'm from the EU, never had a major health scare, but I'm gladly paying that reasonably small fee to have all the avaliable medical care if I need it some day.
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The fact that the contestants each had a terrible back-story and health problems reminds of me of the sad stories told by the contestants on American Idol.
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The sarcoma hit me harder than I expected.
5 months at the beginning of 2021, my sarcoma specialist thought I had leiomyosarcoma of the ivc.
Can't believe it's been two years since becoming physically disabled with chronic undocumented illness.
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Well, Goliath is a Beast. Sounds like any Mr. Beast video.
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@David-cj8wv
8 months ago
Game shows have always been so dystopian to me, rich people dangling money over the heads of poor people to get them to humiliate themselves and put on a show so they can make even more money
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