What will we do for profit?

This is an interesting article. Several years ago all of America was enthralled by William Hung. Luckily for him, he was able to at least make a buck off it selling CD's. But how much money does it take to realize the only reason you have it, is because people are laughing at you? The weeks leading up to an American Idol new season are full of commercials showing clips of people who are awful. That's why people watch the first rounds. They don't care who will be good, that will all come later, after we have heard the horrible and laughed at them. We are effectively watching bullying and saying that it is ok because that person put themselves there voluntarily. We market their rejection and people are getting rich off of it and we don't seem to care. We all know that there are pre-stages of audition where some are sent away and others are let through. The worst of the worst are let through solely to cause a scene or make us laugh which drives up ratings. I laughed hard every time though. Hopefully i won't anymore. What am i going to tell my kid when i know that they can't really sing, but all they want in life is to audition? Life is hard enough as it is without having yourself humiliated for profit. I feel pretty bad about it.