Mark is so mean

First of all, it's a TV show, and I have no doubt that a lot of the pranks are staged for the camera. Second, if you notice that after his wife told him to stop being mean to Nacho, he hasn't had Nacho do any eating challenges since. Now, whether or not he is being nice, or if the Nacho eating challenges were doing poorly with focus groups, I don't know, but, outwardly, he seems to have backed off Nacho.

At the end of the day, though, I think it's pretty clear that Mark is not the most well adjusted guy. The youngest kid in any poverty stricken Irish Catholic family is going to be the brunt of a lot of mistreatment, and, no matter how much he's grown up or how much money he makes, he's always watching his back and, to an extent, trying to build himself up by belittling the people around him- just as his older siblings most likely made him feel small as a child.

I think it's brutally obvious that Mark's upbringing instilled a very dog eat dog philosophy in him that has stayed with him and will continue to stay with him. Donnie, on the other hand, is incredibly kind- almost too kind. Donnie puts off a vibe that he's the luckiest guy in the world, and because he's so incredibly blessed, he has no choice but to be grateful to the people in his life and his fans. Mark, on the other hand, is a little like the ex con who still keeps his arms around his meal to protect it, even though no one is trying to steal his food.

If you look at where Mark has been and where he is now, I think he's pretty clear that he's opened up quite a bit. But he has a way to go. I don't think the people that he's surrounding himself with are helping much.

Mark runs an empire. He tells people what to do. So he has the opportunity to make all the decisions in his life. Few of us are that lucky. So yes, he had a tough life growing up. A lot of us had baggage. Some way worse than his and to this day we still don't have the control that he does over our daily lives. It's not an excuse to use that opportunity to treat those around you the very way you were treated! The way he treats his siblings is the worst! And since he is an executive producer he gets a say in what goes into an episode so I think he rather enjoys the persona he puts into Wahlbugers. I, and others like me, will stop going to his movies because we won't support his lifestyle because of the way he effects the lives of those in his "circle." You're in the public eye Mr. Wahlberg because your fans out you there. Remember that.

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