The speaker discusses the business aspect of the Disney film "Pinocchio", specifically focusing on the exploitation of child laborers on Pleasure Island. The speaker calculates the potential profit from the business of kidnapping children, transforming them into donkeys, and selling them off. The speaker also discusses the costs of running Pleasure Island, including the cost of building the park, maintaining the rides, and the cost of kidnapping the children. The speaker concludes by stating that despite the horrific business practices, the Coachman could have made a significant profit by kidnapping and reselling 292,000 children.
1. The speaker is discussing the Disney film "Pinocchio" and its depiction of child labor exploitation.
2. The speaker is recapping the plot of "Pinocchio", where a character named Geppetto creates a marionette named Pinocchio and wishes for him to become a real boy.
3. The speaker is discussing the business of Pleasure Island, a location in the film where children are kidnapped and transformed into donkeys to be sold off.
4. The speaker estimates the cost of a donkey in the time period of "Pinocchio" to be around $76.
5. The speaker calculates the potential profit of the Coachman, who kidnaps and sells children as donkeys, to be around $4 million.
6. The speaker discusses the costs of running Pleasure Island, including the cost of replacing rides and rebuilding the park after each batch of children is brought in.
7. The speaker estimates the total earnings per batch of children brought to Pleasure Island to be around $83,725.
8. The speaker discusses the initial investment needed to build Pleasure Island, which is estimated to be around $11.5 million.
9. The speaker calculates that the Coachman would need to bring in 292,000 children to Pleasure Island before he would start to turn a profit.
10. The speaker concludes that the Coachman could have been running the most profitable enterprise in all of Europe by kidnapping and reselling 292,000 children.