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Netflix: takes chance on relatively unknown creators’ dystopic fiction show about capitalism and the rich exploiting the poor for entertainment
sees program become a surprise mega-success
makes a reality show emulating the plot of the show, for profit
They basically built the fucking Torment Nexus! 🤦
I mean that should have been obvious when they turned a dystopian novel into the bluprint for reality TV. It’s called Big Brother for a reason. Movies like The Truman Show and EdTV showed the dark side of being under constant public surveillance and now influencers turn their lifes into reallity TV willingly.
The Truman Show is not a good representation of the realities of influencers semi-permanent visibility.
The choice to do it is the first, and major, difference.
and now influencers …
And we absolutely eat that shit up. We donate our money to them, buy their shit, and regurgitate every fucking thing they say as if they were goddamn prophets.
Perhaps, but I’m still not going back there.
Me neither, I just scrap the reddit to add some media to my shitpost collection
Why do you remove your own upvote from a lot of your comments?
People used to do it on reddit. It’s just anonymous social media hard mode.
It adds a sense of mystery
How the hell you know this? I just don’t like praising my own comment
Your comment was at 0 upvoted and 0 downvotes, which is only possible if you manually remove your own upvote.
You said a lot of my comments, so I assume you ewent into my profile? This comment doesnt have any votes but my other comments have votes by others. So I was curious
Ah so yeah. I noticed it was at 0/0 which was odd so I did a quick click on your profile. Tbh I didn’t really read any of the content lol. But the 0/0s kind of jump out.
who upvotes is part of the data provided, i think, but most lemming clients don’t show it….
i think i read that somewhere onceIn mastodon, who likes it are shown. Is this same with lemmy? How can I view it?
i think you need to run an instance of your own.
(p.s. i don’t know though, find a lemmy dev community)
It’s just slightly classier BumFights
How did it get approved? Why does he still have a career?Isn’t it being produced by Amazon? Seems pretty on brand for them.
The older I get the more I appreciate Filthy Frank for enduring the suffering for content instead of outsourcing it.
He did use that old guy for Dracula flow, but it wouldn’t have worked without that specific guy though
Why would he see it? He is one of the rich people who want us to dance for him.
Drag thought the point of Squid Game is that risking death to play sick games for the amusement of the rich is better than living under capitalism.
Squid Games is only possible under capitalism. In fact, I’d say SG is peak capitalism.
Couldnt this happen in an authoritarian society, independent of economical system?
I suppose but I can’t see what the point would be for say a communist authoritarian society considering they already have control and no one has extra.
The point was that rich people (capitalists) play with the lives of others for entertainment and wealth (e.g. gambling, stocks, company margins), and dont care of they get hurt or die. Squid game takes it very literally by kidnapping and trapping people, and putting them into death games that the rich can watch and bet on. It isnt much different than the rich trapping us in low wage jobs while we slave away and die from a lack of health care while wall street ghouls bet on stocks. This is in why there is so much support for Luigi Mangione - people are tired of being exploited.
Some people believe that they can push through and become one of the rich guys in the end, but reaching that point requires the same exploitation of others that keeps the rich, rich. So rather than saying its better than capitalism, its saying that it IS capitalism. Its a critique of capitalism: “Either you get exploited or you exploit others”
