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The Wire Season 1 - McNuggets

Will Ambrosini · comedy · Watch on YouTube

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What it is

A two-minute clip from The Wire season 1 in which D'Angelo explains, using the McNugget, that having an idea does not get you paid. It is a short monologue about who profits from inventing something.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN posts it as a classic scene whenever threads touch on ideas versus execution or who captures the profit from invention.

  • 1 people recommended it
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  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2010, last 2015

What HN commenters said

  1. “this classic monologue from The Wire is too good not to revisit”

    Classic Wire monologue on who profits from inventing McNuggets.

    easymovet, 2015-06 · Recommendation · in “Why do ten Chicken McNuggets cost the same as twenty?”

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Topics: the wire, mcnuggets, entrepreneurship, tv clip, monologue

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