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”
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”