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'You're Fired!'

By Stanley Jaskiewicz
December 27, 2011

A future observer of the reality shows that seem to be the only thing on television today might think that people of the 21st century lived to fire people.

From Donald Trump's iconic, “You're fired!” in The Apprentice, to an awkward, “You won't be coming back” in the ubiquitous cooking or talent competitions, our voyeuristic society seems to enjoy seeing people who fail to make the grade be humiliated ' even if making the grade (or not) has no significance to anyone other than the humiliated contestant.

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