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Shark Tank Kids and Egypt’s Social Pyramid: A Reflection on Opportunity, Inequality, and Systemic Reform
In an episode of Shark Tank Egypt, three 12-year-old children from Egypt’s aristocratic class presented their project and requested support from the sharks. Of course, they received the funding they asked for. However, this event has a much deeper dimension that I’d like to discuss.
In a country with a sound societal mindset and balanced collective psychology, an episode like Shark Tank Kids should provoke widespread public outrage. People should be asking: “Why do children at this age have the luxury of thinking about large projects and significant sums of money, while millions of other children in Egypt are deprived of even a place to sleep? They are left in the streets, workshops, and restaurants without the privilege to even dream about their futures.” Instead, what happened was quite the opposite. People were amazed and moved, as if achievement itself is solely about having access to opportunities, rather than the fair distribution of those opportunities.
This leads us to an important question: What societal structure allows Egypt to accept this disparity as normal?
