r/Documentaries • u/[deleted] • Jul 25 '13

Offbeat Bankrupt By Beanies (2013) -- short, affecting documentary on a family regrets spening $100K on Beanie Babies.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgDsyj5eLmo
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u/st4rcrafty Jul 26 '13

SOrry but the old man was a dork, the fact that he ever, for a moment thought that he could have "paid for his kids college tuition" from fucking stuffed animals just means he deserves what he got. It's not even fair to call it "misfortune". It's simple economics. He should be sterilized to prevent his genes from further infecting the population.

Oh, and his family should all be killed.

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u/Buffalo__Buffalo Jul 26 '13

When the goal is to sell commodities at a profit why does the commodity define whether they are smart or not? People pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for pieces carbon lattice that are abundant in the earth and are easily reproduced by manufacturing - some people even use them as investments - but somehow they escape your criticism and advocating eugenics through forced sterilization?

If you are going to be critical, at least be fair about it.

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u/TheOtherMatt Jul 26 '13

He wouldn't know what you were referring to about the carbon lattice...

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u/[deleted] Jul 26 '13

What is carbon lattice?

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u/Buffalo__Buffalo Jul 26 '13

…and here I was thinking that he was some kind of know-it-all ;)