Valorize white-collar criminals all you want. But don't do this.
Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber
, the newly debuted Showtime TV show based on Mike Isaac’s book of the same name. Season One chronicles the rise and fall of Uber, the global ride-hail giant that Kalanick founded and grew to a $68 billion company before he befell a cascade of scandals and was ousted by his own board. The pilot episode, set to a thumping score, suggests a glossy thriller about a brilliant outsider who may transform not just the taxi industry but the world.
as Deutsche Bank salesman Jared Vennett, based on Deutsche trader Greg Lippmann, who profited on the collapse of the housing market; Justin Timberlake as serial entrepreneur Sean Parker in; and, of course, Leonardo DiCaprio as profane and corrupt stockbroker Jordan Belfort in Martin Scorsese’s Oscar-nominated biopicThere is a broader debate to be had about whether these productions irresponsibly glamorize white-collar crime, but I have a narrower objection: The actors who play the chief bad...
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