This Giant Beast That Is the Global Economy Season 1, Episode 2 review
This Giant Beast That Is the Global Economy Episode 2 was all about the rich. It was all about whether it takes someone to be awful to get rich or if it’s the money that makes you that way, bringing an interesting argument to the audience.
This Giant Beast That Is the Global Economy started on a high with an episode about money laundering, but could the second episode continue? This episode of the documentary, titled “Are Rich People Dicks or Do Dicks Get Rich?” was a look at the attitude of those who make money.
Honestly, it is one of the less memorable episodes of the season. There’s always going to be an episode or two like there; ones where the topics aren’t intriguing enough or don’t offer as much new information. The money laundering episode was full of facts that I’d never heard of — facts that international papers never reported about the Greece financial crisis for example. That’s not the case for this episode.
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This was more a smug way of how to make money and of how to keep that money. There were looks at those who have made a living with social media — Instagrammers are everywhere and some are making millions a year! — and how company CEOs keep money lining their pockets.
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However, there is a section that looks at a business where the CEO is a people person, putting his employees first. The trouble is without watching a second time, I wouldn’t have remembered the name. This part of the episode (and because it was only one company) was buried at the end that meant everything was against it.
The one part of the episode that stood out for me was all about psychopathy. There’s is a middle section that talks about how CEOs and psychopathy can (not always will) go together. In a way, it’s a scary prospect but at the same time, it didn’t surprise me.
This Giant Beast That Is the Global Economy Episode 2 is still certainly worth watching, even if it’s for the reminder that the Harold and Kumar movies are more than a decade old now and that’s what Kal Penn is mostly still known for — I hadn’t realized he worked in government! However, it may put you off the next episode and I urge you not to let it. The third episode is one of the strongest.
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