How much is your freedom worth ?
Premiering last night past midnight on our local shore is the new reality programme by Fox titled “Unan1mous”.
9 contestants are locked in bunker with no sunlight, no outside contact, and not being able to know what time it is (i.e like in jail except the facilities are larger with beds, showers, hall etc). Under these conditions they have to all decide unanimously who will get $1.5 million, but as they fail to make a unanimous decision the money goes down $1 every second and many twists and turns are thrown at them.
This show ended with 8 persons after 8 episodes. Not really sure how long whole thing took before everyone couldn’t stand each other and wanted to get out. Ha ha
The concept is fairly good except that the execution of the programme is lousy, i.e looks fake and frictional.
Anyway, this show brought about a discussion between my father and I. Can anyone survive in a prison environment for 2 million dollars for a period of…. say 2 years ? We all hear of people going to jail for money for whatever reasons, but if given a choice, would these people give up the money for their freedom?
To put it more concretely, for 2 years (2 x 365 days) and 2 million Singaporean dollars, the participant would be not be allowed outside a enclosed prison cell of say 25 sq m with artificial lighting (no sunlight), toilet and shower facilities, and also 3 meals a days (Water is available through a tap and food is introduced through a slot on the door.); but no external contact, no knowledge of time, and no reading materials will be given. Also no camera will be installed in the ceil so that the participant is truly by himself. The door to this ceil will only open for 2 occasions. One would be upon 2 years where the participant is allowed to leave with his 2 million dollars; the other would be when the participant gives up at any point of time and forfeit the money for his freedom within the 2 years.
The crux of this theoretical exercise is simply : How much is your freedom worth even if you are greedy?
In such circumstances, will anyone get the 2 million dollars and be sane enough to spend it?
9 contestants are locked in bunker with no sunlight, no outside contact, and not being able to know what time it is (i.e like in jail except the facilities are larger with beds, showers, hall etc). Under these conditions they have to all decide unanimously who will get $1.5 million, but as they fail to make a unanimous decision the money goes down $1 every second and many twists and turns are thrown at them.
This show ended with 8 persons after 8 episodes. Not really sure how long whole thing took before everyone couldn’t stand each other and wanted to get out. Ha ha
The concept is fairly good except that the execution of the programme is lousy, i.e looks fake and frictional.
Anyway, this show brought about a discussion between my father and I. Can anyone survive in a prison environment for 2 million dollars for a period of…. say 2 years ? We all hear of people going to jail for money for whatever reasons, but if given a choice, would these people give up the money for their freedom?
To put it more concretely, for 2 years (2 x 365 days) and 2 million Singaporean dollars, the participant would be not be allowed outside a enclosed prison cell of say 25 sq m with artificial lighting (no sunlight), toilet and shower facilities, and also 3 meals a days (Water is available through a tap and food is introduced through a slot on the door.); but no external contact, no knowledge of time, and no reading materials will be given. Also no camera will be installed in the ceil so that the participant is truly by himself. The door to this ceil will only open for 2 occasions. One would be upon 2 years where the participant is allowed to leave with his 2 million dollars; the other would be when the participant gives up at any point of time and forfeit the money for his freedom within the 2 years.
The crux of this theoretical exercise is simply : How much is your freedom worth even if you are greedy?
In such circumstances, will anyone get the 2 million dollars and be sane enough to spend it?
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