A closer look
CBS executives originally designed the hit reality show Survivor to be a serious sociological experiment about group dynamics before realizing that watching desperate people backstab each other for money was way more profitable, as they initially thought the contestants would work together in harmony to build a utopian island society, which completely ignores everything human history has ever taught us; within the very first season, a corporate trainer named Richard Hatch realized he could just lie, manipulate, and walk around entirely naked to dominate his peers, instantly inventing the modern reality television genre, leading society to collectively decide that watching a middle-aged man perform psychological warfare in a tiny swimsuit was peak entertainment, paving the way for two decades of absolute garbage television
