reality TV show idea, from private jets to paycheck to paycheck, can a billionaire survive on

their workers' salary for a month? I doubt a month is enough to really feel the effect. That and a

camera team just changes everything. I won't trust doing business with a random nobody, but a guy in a

suit with a whole production team following him, that's just a different

story. That's why reality shows are intrinsically just that. Shows. I think it would be better

if they had to live with their lowest salaried employee for a month or two, in my opinion. In their

house, dinner with the family, travel to and from work together, same lunch, kids with homework, the works.

Building that relation would, in my opinion, do much more for this problem than just experiencing below your normal standard of living before returning to it.

You're much more likely to feel empathy for a family you know, and much less likely to forget them.

Anything else would just be another show about wealthy people having a fun adventure to talk about at cocktail parties.

This would just end up incredibly self-serving and boring.

They'd never truly experience what it's like to be in the precarious position of a minimum wage employee living hand to mouth,

and the novelty is just salt in the wound.

It would be more interesting to see the reverse.

Isn't this almost exactly the same premise as secret millionaire?

Do you guys even have that in the US?

I guess it's a slightly different premise, though, as the question here is for the salary

to be what the person pays their employees, to encourage some awareness of their livelihood,

I guess, rather than the minimum wage of the country. Sure, I'd watch it. They'd never do it, though, because then they'd have to admit that they don't pay a living wage. Disagree, actually. All they have to do is stick it out for a month, and then they can say from personal experience that it isn't that bad. Of course, they never have to deal

with the effects of living that way in the long term. It's kind of like when privileged college

students pretend to be homeless by camping out on the quad for a night. Oh, they wouldn't have

any trouble. Most of them are self-made and most have a large number of financial skills that

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