Money Bait

There's this new radio ad. At first the lady told listeners about recent famine tragedies that resulted in several deaths. Then gave poverty statistics. And ask rhetorical questions, gave words of encouragement for us to fight poverty together.

Comments from real people, saying things like "it's because the price of rice is so high!" or "i dont know what else to do"

Then the lady invites listeners to send in their ideas to fight poverty. Another motivating claims for us to help our people.

And offered hundreds of million rupiah in prize.

Then came other words of encouragement.

Then came the politician. Bla bla bla. Fight poverty with me.

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This is absurd. How can they use these deaths, these tragedies, these agonies to help his campaign? It is so degrading on so many levels.

And they offered a huge sum of money for us to send in our ideas to help poverty, thinking that monetary incentives are the only thing that will keep us going. They maybe imagined us as the golddiggers who doesnt give a shit about anything but ourselves.

"Hey apparently there are people dying because of lack of food. Hm. I wonder if I should help. But hey, there's hundreds of million rupiah offered. Hm, who knows if I can win this thing. What an opportunity to brush up my imagination and bullshit skills!"