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(frozen comment) Re: To people who watched Iron Fist: A Very Important Question about Danny Rand and education

[(Anonymous)]

I dont think op is belittling non-western education, just asking why Rand Corp doesnt seem to. A western company WOULD take big issue with a hostile takeover from a twenty-five-year-old with no formal education.
and like.... Rand politics are like 70% the plot in Iron Fist. By the end of it Ward and Danny have gone through enough shit together that Ward's okay with Danny's involvement, though I imagine Ironfist s2 will shovel more corporate drama into a show about kung fu.
The point is, by Defenders, Danny's position in the company makes sense. Im personally glad they didnt have Ward or any Rand employee involved in the Defenders plot, there was Enough in Ironfist

(frozen comment) Re: To people who watched Iron Fist: A Very Important Question about Danny Rand and education

[(Anonymous)]

Anon who posted about cultural educational biases here saying 100% it is correct to say that Rand Corp really should have taken issue with it more.

Like... grade levels of English literacy aside, cultural literacy and social literacy (which Danny does NOT demonstrate and which, let's face it, are like 95% of what an ivy league or competetive higher educational program is really FOR) are absolutely crucial to something like being a CEO or running Rand.

And it is correct that owning 51% of the shares does not automatically mean any say in day to day running of the business. There are definitely Walton family members who aren't making decisions at Walmart and Paris Hilton isn't exactly exerting any influence over Hilton Hotels. Danny might have a symbolic office but showing the board or shareholders being cool with him making decisions (especially unilaterally in Iron Fist, which is not how it works anyway) makes zero sense.

Then again... in a universe where the job of lawyer mostly consists of yelling "Objection" and comes across like mediocre Law and Order and where reporters act like they're about to nail that dastardly Nixon if their cowardly editors will just let them, is it really worth even having expectations that their portrayal of corporate America wouldn't read like the writers saw half of Wolf of Wall Street as research and called it a day?

Honestly, these Netflix shows are lucky the characters are so strong and well-characterized...

(frozen comment) Re: To people who watched Iron Fist: A Very Important Question about Danny Rand and education

[(Anonymous)]

OP just popping in to say you're very right about how terribly the careers the characters have are represented. I was just especially baffled here bc I know that Iron Fist inexplicably had a lot of corporate drama.

It does come off like the writers watched half of Wolf of Wall Street...but they could've at least finished the movie...maybe even skimmed a law book...something to realize the 51% rule is bs...wishful thinking, I guess.

(frozen comment) Re: To people who watched Iron Fist: A Very Important Question about Danny Rand and education

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you. I'm the OP, and that's exactly what I meant. I really am NOT belittling non-Western education. Honestly, I could've left out the entire 'levels' bit (and wish I had, and also wish I'd stop posting so soon before going to sleep lol) and the actual question would still be there, because yeah, non-Western education is valuable (and when I was being iffy about K'un Lun education I wasn't talking about non-Western education in general, I was just musing on what Abusive Monk Education From Another Dinension might've been like), but why would the people in Rand Corporation think that?