The Wire Season 1 - McNuggets
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.
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.
Recommended by 1 HN commenters across 1 different months, 2010 to 2015.
What Hacker News said
Recommends easymovet · 2015-06 · on “Why do ten Chicken McNuggets cost the same as twenty?”
Sorry, I know this isn't reddit, but speaking of the economics of McNuggets this classic monologue from The Wire is too good not to revisit: [this video]