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Re: Sorry, but you're already living in the “Squid Game”

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Post by MildlySerious »

boppo1 wrote: post #17

I enjoyed squid game, but it bugs me that everyone says it's a critique of capitalism. They're literally participating in a centrally planned system.

Out of desperation and lack of options, yes. Then they are shown the horrible nature of it and still decide it's the least bad thing for them.

Re: Sorry, but you're already living in the “Squid Game”

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Post by McBeige »

boppo1 wrote: post #17

I enjoyed squid game, but it bugs me that everyone says it's a critique of capitalism. They're literally participating in a centrally planned system.

Isn't inequality or competition for basic needs, and how those can lead to terrible outcomes, a better starting point if you want to come up with an ancap interpretation?

I don't think the series says much about central vs local planning, and even if it did that'd only be tangentially related to capitalism or anti-capitalism.

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Post by peakaboo »

boppo1 wrote: post #17

I enjoyed squid game, but it bugs me that everyone says it's a critique of capitalism. They're literally participating in a centrally planned system.

And why do they participate? Because its their only chance to get away from being poor. That's exactly the point of capitalism - people do things they don't want to do every day so they don't have to be poor.

Re: Sorry, but you're already living in the “Squid Game”

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Post by wodenokoto »

boppo1 wrote: post #17

I enjoyed squid game, but it bugs me that everyone says it's a critique of capitalism. They're literally participating in a centrally planned system.

I don't really see the game itself as a societal criticism, but more how desperation from an unfair society can drive people to participate, and how extremely wealthy individuals can abuse this desperation for fun and games.

Re: Sorry, but you're already living in the “Squid Game”

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Post by SuoDuanDao »

__alexs wrote: post #19
bjornsing wrote: post #12

Meritocracy is definitely under attack. Another Netflix show with a similar message is “3%”.

> Meritocracy is definitely under attack. Meritocracy is an attack on capitalism. Read the book.

Whenever someone tells me to read a book they refuse to summarise, I assume they've been the victim of a successful hypnotist.

Re: Sorry, but you're already living in the “Squid Game”

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Post by djbusby »

mountainb wrote: post #23

Yeah all these waves of enthusiasm for a show just wash over me. I have ignored every one of them in recent decades. It has never harmed me socially to be utterly unaware of the details of the latest Mad Tiger Squid Soprano.

Did you skip The Wire? That show was amazing.

Re: Sorry, but you're already living in the “Squid Game”

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Post by lotsofpulp »

peakaboo wrote: post #34
boppo1 wrote: post #17

I enjoyed squid game, but it bugs me that everyone says it's a critique of capitalism. They're literally participating in a centrally planned system.

And why do they participate? Because its their only chance to get away from being poor. That's exactly the point of capitalism - people do things they don't want to do every day so they don't have to be poor.

Has a better system been tried or proposed?

A daily lottery for who has to clean toilets and do underwater welding?

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