Dragons Den

Poor Uncle Tom

An exercise in pure greed. A TV show on the national broadcaster promoting unadulterated capitalist greed. Lining five pockets with even more money.
/rant.

dirtyden

Could also be seen as promoting innovation and entrepeneurship. It depends on how positive or negative one's outlook is.

Specialun

Op seems bitter

ArtyC

That's cause his rugby thing was ****e

donvito99

Poor Uncle Tom wrote: »

An exercise in pure greed. A TV show on the national broadcaster promoting unadulterated capitalist greed. Lining five pockets with even more money.
/rant.

Their "greed" pays your dole.

Poor Uncle Tom

Specialun wrote: »

Op seems bitter

Not at all, just flicking through and came across it, and I thought, how many times have I heard one of them say.... 'nice idea, but it's not for me'....or... 'I'm out, but I wish you well'.....or.... 'not my area and for that reason, I'm out'

Picking 5 people to judge peoples innovations or business ideas on the basis of how much they can cream off for themselves.

As I said, it's just a rant....

Ronald Wilson Reagan

Greed is good, keeps the proles in check.

Alf Stewart.

donvito99 wrote: »

Their "greed" pays your dole.

That escalated quickly.

AtomicHorror

Poor Uncle Tom wrote: »

Not at all, just flicking through and came across it, and I thought, how many times have I heard one of them say.... 'nice idea, but it's not for me'....or... 'I'm out, but I wish you well'.....or.... 'not my area and for that reason, I'm out'

Picking 5 people to judge peoples innovations or business ideas on the basis of how much they can cream off for themselves.

They're investing their own money... why would anyone knowingly make a bad bet? That's would not be a display of altruism, it would be stupidity or at best charity.

tomwaterford

In fairness you do feel sorry for some of the folks on it
They working away building up a business etc over a few years....getting ready to drive it on and some dragon :rolleyes: comes along and says il give you about 6 months revenue for 50% of your business and future profits

iamtony

Poor Uncle Tom wrote: »

An exercise in pure greed. A TV show on the national broadcaster promoting unadulterated capitalist greed. Lining five pockets with even more money.
/rant.

Unfortunately the communist model doesn't work very well so we have to live with the smart people earning all the money. It's sad but reality. Money makes money, unfortunate for you or I out father and their fathers before them obviously never seriously succeeded in life in money terms of course.

Phoebas

Poor Uncle Tom wrote: »

An exercise in pure greed. A TV show on the national broadcaster promoting unadulterated capitalist greed. Lining five pockets with even more money.
/rant.

The bastards!
How dare those capitalists offer capital to people on a show seeking capital.

My name is URL

A TV show on the national broadcaster promoting unadulterated capitalist greed

I missed the memo about Ireland not being a capitalist nation

Shur we have Ear to the Ground and Nationwide for our Communist comrades

Ronald Wilson Reagan

Planet Hulk wrote: »

Whats wrong with wanting to make profit?

Exploitation of the planets natural resources.

iamtony

Ronald Wilson Reagan wrote: »

Exploitation of the planets natural resources.

You make a good point!

UrbanSprawl

I like this show but in fairness the 'inventions' are mostly different kinds of crisps or different type book to read to your kids.Real innovation is thin on the ground with this show to date.

PARlance

UrbanSprawl wrote: »

I like this show but in fairness the 'inventions' are mostly different kinds of crisps or different type book to read to your kids.Real innovation is thin on the ground with this show to date.

Real innovation looks for real investors.