I think the vips isn’t a representation of capitalism or the elites, it’s a representation of us the viewer who are watching the show the same way as they are

Are people forgetting about Gladiatory arena's and how quite oftentimes people would watch convicts be thrown into a fight to the death against skilled gladiators and butchered?

@@tomvanoostendorp5891 But what if I _didn't_ watch? Does that make me a good person?

What's precisely so insidious about the modern death game is that it gaslights the people into believing that this is the only way a society can be run. So in the end they perpetuate the system for the false hope of soon having their turn to be the one in the powerful position to "screw" the people.

@@Michelle_Wellbeck Shake up the pyramid and you end up with someone else on top. Even if it's a cube which can easily be moved about without much pain or suffering, there will be those who slowly chisel at it until it's a pyramid, and they're the ones on top

To which I would ask you, was it an accurate depiction of human nature? And if so, why is it only fiction and not history?

@@gorkyd7912 people have killed each other over food sources for years.

@@gorkyd7912 an accurate depiction of the worst of human nature, yes

XDDD how friggin convenient

I agree. I think the creator of this video missed that the main character and other characters were meant to be flawed. That's the whole point. The wealthy businessmen who bet on the game were counting on them to turn against each other which is why they picked specifically people who were ethically bankrupt. But the end message wasn't nihilistic. It was the main character chose to not sink to the level they wanted him to.

Indeed the actual quote (from the Bible) is "The LOVE of money is the root of all evil"

Its* siren song

Yep, thing is everyone over looks, at any time the contestants could have opted out and the money would have gone to the families of the dead. These people chose to risk their lives, and most chose to murder in an episode. The people running the game really did nothing then set things up, the contestants made each other so everything. Just like getting in their situations were the choices of the contestants.

Fascinating analysis. One of the few long KZfaq comments I enjoyed reading.

@@gigahorse1475 Thanks. Had fun analyzing it.

Looks like someone didn't watch till the end of the video.

@@goblin8557 I went back and re-watched just in case I missed the Marvel easter-egg, or... you know, in case I just wasn't paying good enough attention. Do you mean to say that the blurb near the end where he said what he thought Squid Game was really about, suggests that he actually *liked* Squid Game, and would return for the sequels because of the way it handled [Capitalism, commerce, money-issues, etc.] and "unsympathetic" characters? Because that was the bit I was addressing.

Pretty sure director said that its about capatalism

@@0912sooli yep that's right. If i am not wrong, he said that it is a critique of capitalism. This show was inherently political in nature, at least from the point of view of people who were behind this web series.

@@0912sooli then the director clearly doesn't understand capitalism, but seems to think he does

Haven't seen the show, if this is the case then I 100% agree with you. If this blood sport is a 'philosophy of true equality' then it's most definitely Communism, the guys running the show (the state) are the ones giving the people promises of wealth for following the rules, when they know that it'll be squandered and they'll be back for more later.

That is how I viewed it but people have this warped view and don't believe communism will make an even more powerful elite class.

I don't think that was the writers intent, but I read it that way to.

It is closer to communism than it is ro capitalism.

The game itself definitely has some shadows of communism/ socialism in it. An authoritarian regime that tightly controls the lives of everyone involved and forcing them to do horrific things to each other in the vain hope of improving their lives. The talk big about equality and everyone having a chance but the reality is blatantly the opposite. The entire game is organized into and unassailable pyramid with the VIPs on the top and everyone else essentially being their slaves. Several of the games intentionally make it so it is nigh impossible for certain people to win and if someone has a personal skill set that would allow them to succeed, the gamerunners change the rules to to screw him over.

I went into it seeing articles about it being anti capitalist, and I was fully prepared to disagree with the message, but I think you're 100% right about how it critiqued socialism. It probably wasn't intended to come off that way, but a lot of overtly political media comes off that way (songs made by Left leaning bands being adopted by the Right because it fits the issue or movies being made to criticize the Right coming off as arguments FOR the Right, etc) AND on top of that, it came off as more like a critisism on the Government itself

"...a society where the elite are on top and everyone else suffers." The great irony is that this was the status quo for thousands of years of human civilization before property rights and market economies gave the common people an opportunity to better their lives.

@@deepspeed84 Smashed it

i actually die inside whenever i read corporatism lmfao

@Angus Chandler I described corporatism as when elites controlling the people through companies. And I actually do know what socialism is. Not the collective ownership part of socialism but the “everyone is equal” part of socialism. In the games, everyone had a fair shot at winning the money and anyone who prevented anyone else from having a fair shot was killed, even the people working there.

Capitalism is the free exchange of goods between one individual and another that they own. Corporatism is that the corps own everything and you have no right to bargain away anything that is the corporates. Wait a moment.... *rips off the mask of Corporatism* I knew it! *Communism* it was communism all a long! calling yourself a corporation when you rule a country is merely a level of detachment, they are very much the government, and most 'Corporate Dystopia's' are rather communistic don't'cha think? (you own nothing, can choose nothing, and only get what the state gives you... which is often times not enough to survive)

Isnt monopoly the same kind of system?

It's better to sell that Capitalism is the problem and not you (who benefits from Corporatism) as you will always be able to find a way to exploit the masses. If people come to understand the difference they will tear you down, why not use have them fight amongst themselves, tear down everything the can use to compete against you then enslave them?

@@tatteredshield8120 Monopoly is somewhat capitalistic, same as how Communistic dictators abuse whatever system they needed to accumulate enough power to get and stay in charge. Monopoly is a very straight forward game with little to no nuance, but with what I know now, its definitely more Corporatism than it is capitalistic

Pretty sure that Corporatism is the inevitability of Capitalism. The thing with Capitalism is that when people get powerful enough, they tend towards Cronyism, they gatekeep, it becomes Corporatism. I remember this guy kept saying that "there are only few bad actors" or something in the line of that, but the problem isn't the amount, but it's the power. That us as individuals won't help with climate change, because corporations are responsible to the 70% of the global pollution.

Wait, where's the part where Kojima whined about kindly Imperial Japan getting nuked out of nowhere?

@@lopusmaximus3272 Most Metal Gear Solid games revolve around the eponymous superweapons, easily read as nuke analogues, and the message usually boils down to the mere existence of weapons with that kind of destructive power is fundamentally immoral. (And the main reason for that caveat is that more recent Metal Gear games have the message of "wow, making a lot of money while not exerting a ton of effort on making a half-decent video game sure is a great deal".) Resident Evil, another Japanese property, loves playing with this trope as well, hence why world peace and nominal stability is routinely threatened by each game's eponymous (in its Japanese title) biohazard. RE6 even deploys a virus by means of a nuclear warhead at one point (...somehow), just in case you're slow on the uptake. But MGS isn't the only time that Kojima feels entitled to weigh in on a culture he knows nothing about, as proven by Death Stranding. Kojima has such a third-grade-level understanding of geopolitics, and yet he never shuts up about it, and that unfortunate combination is probably what sets him apart as a special kind of insufferable to many. Resident Evil can usually skate by on the parody excuse (whether valid or not), but Kojima insists that he's trying to be serious and make legit points.

@@draketheduelist "Most Metal Gear Solid games revolve around the eponymous superweapons, easily read as nuke analogues, and the message usually boils down to the mere existence of weapons with that kind of destructive power is fundamentally immoral." This was due to irresponsible usage of them though, it's not just because it's been used to end a war quicker. It's not the existence of the weapon that's immoral, it's that it has been proven quite a lot of times that the superweapons has been used inappropriately and not as the moral function of it, a deterrent. You're missing a lot of context in order to make it that the message is "the mere existence of weapons with that kind of destructive power is fundamentally immoral." "Kojima has such a third-grade-level understanding of geopolitics, and yet he never shuts up about it, and that unfortunate combination is probably what sets him apart as a special kind of insufferable to many." I have honestly never heard of him being referred to being "a special kind of insufferable to many.". Hell, a majority of people find his stories entertaining and philosophical, at least from what I've seen from the reviews of his games (in regards to MGS). Maybe I'm ignorant to this, but from what I've seen from reviews, story-breakdowns, and comments in them, people seem to praise it highly. Some may call it too complicated/convoluted, yes, but not insufferable.

It's kinda sad that the writer of the show says the show is a critique of capitalism :/ The show is moreso a critique of cronyism and authoritarianism, unless you define capitalism as these two things, or maybe he doesn't understand what the word actually means.

@@draketheduelist Thank you, I can't stand that moron. Not to mention that most of what made MGS so enjoyable was "allegedly" stolen from one of his co-creators. Norman Reedus and his funky fetus, just proved he's all glamor and no substance. Very pretty visuals, lots of big words, a high school level of philosophy, and an air of smugness so strong I can smell it through the fucking computer screen. I cannot stand that man.

Which is likely what the *real* problem sees, and pushes that narrative, now aware of how to play the people.

I wan to try! Pepperoni s anti-capitalist because pepperoni s associated with Italians, who suffer under anti-Italian racism in the United States. Racism is capitalist because Caucasian conquerors were capitalist and imposed their capitalism onto the lands they have conquered. /joke/

Yeah just because money is involved does not mean it’s a certain political situation

"All art is political (even teletubbies)."

GUYS.... WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO MEDIA LITERACY???

Silence is violence to stupid over political people, everything is "wrong" and must pointed out all the time.

Thank you. I saw the stupid headlines about Squid Games being a commentary on capitalism and I said to myself “Wtf? No” and moved on. When I watched the show, I saw the same as you.

You do know social artist existed during the prime of the USSR, and it’s scientists were one of the best in the world

@@egoxagony4623 These intellectuals existed and excelled to the extent that their commitment to rationality compelled them to mentally escape into endeavors where the rules and objectives were rational, while being surrounded by a society built on irrationality and protracted collective suicide. Would you become an accomplished artist if your brushstrokes were dictated by a commissar standing behind you, with a gun pressed into your back, who does not explain or argue, knowing that his gun is his sole argument and only qualification? Would you become a great scientist if you were forced by government fiat to declare that the laws and rules of the natural world conform to a dialectic reality, allowing unknown arbitrary powers to merge and muddy your rational view of the world, in favor of the official Party line? That is precisely the practical policy under which those same intellectuals you praise had to endure in the USSR, and they succeeded in their endeavors to the extent that they were able to endure it. If you want a proliferation of productivity, creativity, and intellectual greatness among men, you are not likely to find it in a communist society, except for a few people who learned to hide and compartmentalize their talents. You will find it among the citizenry of a country based on capitalism, where the rules are objective and clear, where each individual is free to make use of his mind to its fullest extent, on any scale he wishes, where he would be allowed to enjoy the rewards for his achievements as well as left alone to endure the consequences of his failures, and where irrational “men” such as yourself would not have the power to stop them.

@@egoxagony4623 ussr was killing its scientists for being too smart, even just being a biologist was a death sentence back then.

It doesn't change the fact that the show shows people getting failed by capitalism

@@egoxagony4623 They where a generation behind at best.

yeah in kaiji is the game is made so you don't leave it most times the losing party doesn't get killed they have more debt to the system, it's more about gambling and casinos than any economic system, it also helps to have a more likable protagonist.

Squid game seems to be more depressing than Kaiji and for longer, but I doubt it can be as tense as Kaiji

More depressing than danganronpa? Bro at least the characters in squid game are flawed and aren’t teenagers thrown into a situation by a psychopath who runs others misery…. Legit that’s what kept me from being miserable the entire time-treating it as a fun character study and hoping some characters bit the dust and hoping others see the errors of their ways and hope to improve themselves as people. Or if I want to be challenged-they can do the latter and then pull the rug and kill them anyway like a couple of them in episode 6. Or maybe they are forced to see the consequences of not being better people like again in episode 6 with the main character being called out for being a manipulating cheater. Also not to mention I found other Netflix shows to be more depressing and miserable like Daredevil and Jessica Jones and even A Series of Unfortunate Events AND THAT LAST ONE IS AIMED AT CHILDREN!!! Hell I find Haunting of Hill House and Midnight Mass more miserable but yet again they have higher highs that remind you at times there is hope yet despite the depressing nature of the situation. And those last two are horror shows as well so that helps too.

Kaiji's anime was also a thing when the director of this crap first had the idea The manga was ages before the anime too and went for a really long run

I gotta admit though that kaiji too can fall into some dogmatic zero-sum thinking especially how the author used tonegawa's viewed money as his personal projection, years after I saw it I realized that what is the more important view is not acquiring money, but the creation of wealth through innovation That said, what I think kaiji does so much more right is that it is less a commentary like squid game and more about using a story as a call to take risks with a sense of urgency to life. That was the overwhelming message through the series and it really hit in the end of season 1 with tonegawa's famous speech and kaiji's e card game.

I too am a Kaiji enjoyer. 🍷

@@aMrAppleMonkey based

Me too, i watched it just as it popularity started to grow because my brother recomended it so i never new how big it was until 1~2 weeks later. It never even crossed my mind the fact the show "criticized capitalism", shitty bosses? Yes. But that ain't political, ali's boss was a twat. I saw it firstly as a fun experience (brazillian movies and the news here in general made me quite dessensitized to violence. The only scene where i kinda cringed was when the dude said he took turns raping a woman, that was messed up) second as a critique of being bad with finances The characters in this show are flawed (which is a good thing) and practically all of them are there due to their own actions.

I mean it kind of promote the idea that instead of working for money, you should join a deadly game show in order to pay off your debts. I kind of see it as a way to get money without having to actually work for it.

But what creates the desperation? Yeah, it's crapitalism.

@@cn2673 Duh? Capitalism provides jobs haphazardly because it's so inefficient. It needs a supply of disposable laborers (out-of-work folks) so that it can hire them in times of increased productivity and fire them when productivity/demand/whatev goes down. In a better system, that wouldn't happen. Capitalism itself is the reason people don't have jobs. And so is gambling addiction. Slot machines, for example, are not just games of chance. They are literally designed to be addiction machines. The way the colors light up and sounds go off when you win triggers dopamine responses in your brain, which jogs a need to keep pushing that button or pulling that lever to get more dopamine. It almost doesn't matter HOW MUCH $$ you're winning, the colors and sounds are what matter. And, of course, you're losing money in reality. The house wins. The machines are designed to pay out fractions of cents while you're plugging dollars into it. So it's a game of diminishing returns, though it looks and sounds like you're winning. And FYI: casinos make more money from slots than from any card game, or roulette, craps, etc. It's not just some good faith business, it's actually a capitalist grift to pickpocket customers through sophisticated (and researched) psychological processes of addiction.

@@cn2673 Under communism, labor is directed toward need. If demand goes down, a person isn't just out of work. They're moved where they're needed and provided with any necessary education and training. Only under capitalism is the logic, "Demand went down so you're fired, good luck affording food!" And if capitalists are designing machines that are literally meant TO CREATE ADDICTION, then yes, that addiction is capitalism's fault. People aren't born with addiction. You might be genetically predisposed to it, but it's onset requires environmental and psychological triggers, which the capitalists have capitalized on. And don't forget, the reason people are "going in there" is because of high-level marketing and advertising campaigns. But I'm sure if people stopped going in there, you'd still blame them for "destroying the economy!" It's always the fault of the people who are being oppressed, isn't it?

"it's just socialism with more steps." -> That is succinct, true, elegant, and beautiful.

I take it your teacher was a Fed. Or Mr. Boo-urns.

@@witprole3050 I'm not sure I understand what you mean. Although I get the boo-urns part. Hehehe, Simpsons...... Anyways, if I take your meaning right then I'd disagree. He's a very conservative man, and he was DEFINITELY a capitalist

@@logantidwell7698 My point: "SoCiAlIsM iS wHeN cApItAlIsM!" Give me a break

@@witprole3050 Exactly What a joke his education must have been with teachers like that

Agent? Sae-byeok hired a human trafficker for her family to get them across the border from N-Korea. Wouldn’t really blame her for that. And Ali wanted the money for his family, not just because he was greedy. Those two hardly deserved their fate

@@thotslayer9914 well yeah exactly

This comment is basically talking from an arrogant privileged perspective.

@@kroolini3678 Thank you.

@@kroolini3678 Yea you just named the only two actual victims in this story, what about literally everyone else?

To be fair most South Koreans love the ccp and simp for communism on the lowkey

@@mbansjddbsj funny how not one of them tries to defect to the north.

@@dfmrcv862 lol, yup. Thats how most commies are, love to preach about how perfect a system it is. But wont move to an actual communist country and see "how that perfect system" really works.

well i don't think they whine about capitalism in these examples in my opinion because even the ''winners'' of capitalism still suffer from what are pretty obviously bad choices from themselves or other characters.

Alice in borderland Check it out!

Well, what made the rich powerful? It's capitalism that made them powerful, it's when they wurm their way within the infrastructure that we're completely dependent on their services. The Private Sector doesn't have the responsibility to us, they just want our money. The market isn't self-correcting, it's constantly manipulated.

@@The6thMessenger yeah so lets stop allowing our governments manipulating it

@@The6thMessenger @The6thMessenger I couldn't disagree more on your comment. That's just a bold assumption of yours. Just look at the political leaders of China, North Korea, UAE, Russia, every country in South America and Africa and tell me again that capitalism made the rich powerful. Are you serious? Do you even live on this planet?

@@The6thMessenger That's cronyism. Elites can do whatever they want under any system. Lavrentiy Beria was a high ranking Soviet official who raped numerous amounts of women got away with it and was only gotten rid of because he was in the way of Khrushchev.

@@joebro186 Wut? Dude Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg. Dude.

*corporatocracy. Corporatism is something else.

That's the same fucking thing capitalism is the private individual's ability to own capital And to do so in the modern era is owning a company a corporation that is how you get capital

I haven't seen Squid game, not interested in watching Squid game, if I were asked about Squid game being a social commentary I would answer with 'Elitism', the people are here of their own volition, the elites believe that they're entitled to toy with people's lives because of their status. Money has nothing to do with it, heck, we've seen it with Gladiators and Blood Sport.

@@amateurishauthor2202 Bloodsport as in the movie with JCVD about Frank Dux who is a liar?

I think the show makes an ok statement but I think that shows like this should be viewed just for its actual content insted of its message to have the best time viewing it so I completely agree with you.

@@notmyrealnamesorry3118 Yeah, not every show or movie needs to be some commentary on society or whatever. Sometimes, just enjoy it as a goddamn show.

​@ShadeSlayer1911 I always thought it was "The rich have all the money, therefore they can decide what's right and what's wrong and if they don't like it, they can just change the rules, and they never have to pay for their crimes" KZfaq I hate to tell you this but Putin is never going to run out of money. I'm sorry but it's true

Meta textual, I know, but the reason she can't answer the question that was given to her is because SoKor is dictatorial in nature and any perceived praise towards NoKor can get you to jail. It's quite odd they decided to include that. And it would have been better if they decided to just say Yes, SoKor is better than NoKor, wtf is wrong with you, but they decided to bet that the SoKor government won't fuck them over like those strike workers that got blacklisted. Also, also, what do you think happened to those people who wanted to go back to NoKor but can't? I guess they're not real people or something, right? Jesus, you guys and your need to paint everyone as malevolent beings no one likes to the point that you ignore that not everyone actually likes the current system and the only reason it exists is because apparently the FEDposters decided to simp for whatever it is that get people to dehumanize anyone that they disagree with.

South Korean media legally cannot show North Korea in a positive light. It’s like a McCarthy era American movie where the Soviets are the protagonists.

Lol the free state of south Korea is fascist but north Korea and China isn't. GTFO

@@snintendog where did i say china and north korea were better or that they weren’t fascist?

@@draconisthewyvern3664 in your Edited comment....wow

@@snintendog it was edited a month ago well before you responded to add information to my statement. i never said north or china were better or that they weren’t fascist

Cronyism, monopolies, that's created by the government.

@@AnimMouse de facto monopolies (e.g. Google on net searches) are created by the industry. They can be just as stifling on competition as legal monopolies. Cronyism… well, did the politicians ask for a bribe first or did the industry offer one first? The net effect is the same.

Which is why there is nothing wrong with socialism

@@Lilhajxjk274 please elaborate.

@@TheRealNormanBates all anti socialist arguments contradict themselves and go againts capitalism

@@Lilhajxjk274 like what arguments?

@@TheRealNormanBates I want to hear them first

Me neither. I thought it was an analysis of personal behavior under extreme circumstances. I heard the director said it was a critique of capitalism, but to what end he did not explain. The show displayed both the evil people abusing capitalism and the benefits of using capitalism.

I agree but I believe the intent of the video was to prove that point as opposed to the people that did see it as a critique of capitalism.

Do you mean laws? I dont think having to battle to the death for survival is quite the same as being told not to kill people, steal stuff or kidnap people by an elected power.

@@notmyrealnamesorry3118 check out some of the laws of North Korea. The difference with the squid games is it is voluntary to put yourself in that position.

It's a gulag with extra steps, and we all knew which system hosted the gulags.

That has also happened in capitalist countries so that isn't a argument againts anti capitalism

@@notmyrealnamesorry3118 Maybe the disagreement is on the extent of government reach. You will have many agree with you herr if you advocate for limited government, not anarchy nor big government.

It plays off the idea a flawed protagonist is more interesting than a perfect protagonist. It also plays off the idea that you either want to see these characters bite the dust or see them improve as people-or perhaps pull your heart strings by doing the latter first then pulling the rug by killing them anyway XD

1) Resources allocated to military budget far outweigh those allocated to Build Back Better. Call militaristic behavior good or bad, point is that behavior is being rewarded by the capitalist-imperialists. And just a reminder, it was Reagan who called it "Trickle-Down Economics." 2) You ARE trapped. Can you quit your job willy nilly (without having another)? If you do, will your landlord let you squat? Will your grocery store give you free food? Will your hospital perform surgery at no cost without insurance coverage? There is no exit from capitalism. Choice is an illusion. I don't even understand where you're getting Point 3.

@@witprole3050 Neither military spending nor infrastructure projects are anything resembling the direct individual reward/punishments given out in these "capitalism" metaphors. Yes, you *can* quit your job willy nilly. You don't even necessarily need another job lined up. All you need is a plan to make ends meet after the fact, which can be achieved a number of ways (live off savings during the transition, start your on business, live with a friend / family / partner, make arrangements with a church / charity / sugar daddy, hunt / scavenge as a vagrant, downsize... or any combination of these). Not every option is going to be amenable to your specific circumstance, but your options include anything you can think of. Being a wage-cuck is simply the path of least resistance for most people with very little marketable skills & assets. All "capitalism" really does is take the options of theft and slavery off the table. Point 3 is that these metaphors always portray a desperate struggle to take meager resources from each other. But all the incentives in a free market system are to create new forms of wealth. Finite resources in short supply explode in price, driving down potential profit margins, and creating economic incentives to find cheaper alternative ways to accomplish the same demands.

@TheStinkyPoopooHeadz Right. Next time someone makes a movie about WWII, I'll wait to hear your criticism that the "theme" wasn't depicted "well" because fascism wasn't portrayed sympathetically enough to let the audience decide for themselves whether the Holocaust was a good thing

@@witprole3050 Not able to understand point 3 sums it up your hate for capitalism.

@@AnimMouse Well, when capitalism is killing people, starving them to death, depriving them of necessary medical care, keeping them houseless, freezing them to death, trapping them in violent/abusive relationships, making them indentured servants and lifelong debt slaves, denying them equality, equanimity, autonomy, and full rights, you'd have to be out of your mind not to hate crapitalism. But no, the third point just didn't make sense. Production is not possible? What are the workers producing then? Cooperation is not possible? Workers are cooperating every day -- on assembly lines, in company teams, buddying up to build something on construction sites -- to render goods and services from which capitalists steal the wealth they create with their labor. And critiques of capitalism, even Squid Game, show this. Point 3 just doesn't hold water.

Monopoly is socialism?🤨

@@wilfredomarenco9939 I think he means where there is a lack of free market. He phrased it awfully though

Adam Smit the father of capitalism called monopoly the worst enemy of capitalism.

@@wilfredomarenco9939 Yes. Because they can only exist through the ladder being pulled up by the state, to prevent undercutting. All monopolies are essentially incorporated.

That's what capitalism is, bud: the tendency for capital to funnel into fewer and fewer hands. Exactly what capitalism looked like when it took full steam in its infancy. The only reason we don't recognize this as capitalism is because capitalism was regulated by social checks and redistributive programs after the New Deal. Now that Neoliberalism tore those apart, we're back to classic, unadulterated ("unregulated") capitalism. This is what you're advocating for? Because it ain't socialism.

@ur couzin Do you feel the same realizing that wealth is not a zero-sum game?

That is not what capitalism is capitalism is the ability to gain capital and have capitalists which means private individuals can own the means in which commodities are made for profit and create capital. its not called tradism its called capitalism because people can have capital fucking shit is it that hard like you shouldn't need to read walth of the nation or das Kapital just to understand something that has its main concept in the fucking name now why is gaining capital bad well its bad because Eventually in the pursuit of capital the capitalists class will have class struggle with the working class of whome they exploit they must do this to have the most capital because if they don't some will Disney must keep their eye peas on strict lays to because if they didn't someone else might make a better product and they need the most capitals that they can just buy blue skies and fire all of their workers go bye the profit motive Creates inherent contadictions like plan obsolescence. Why would you make a product that purposely breaks or isn't the best of its kind well because it's not supposed to be a good product you're supposed to just be getting the most money out of it.

This is the dumbest shit i've ever heard lmao.

Damn you sound entitled

@@BatmanISTheGame im sorry, is having media that critises capitalism in the same boring way everytime a human right or something? XD

@@Uniquenameosaurus Wait what?

@@BatmanISTheGame You said I sound entitled. What do you think I feel "entitled" too? More nuanced critiques of capitalism in my media?

@@Uniquenameosaurus This channel is political. You said "I'm bored."

So, did i. Plus i kinda skipped the dull parts. I find mostly about selfishness and selfness and how some idiots try to excuse their wraped morality.

yes but what causes that desperation? capitalism at its core is competition. if you put two burger restaurants side by side, one is bound to put the other one out of business, leaving the owner and workers jobless. at this stage of humanity, we should not have to compete just to live anymore. it’s a caveman mentality that should be retired.

I always thought of it as "The Ruch can do whatever they want to whoever they want, and they'll never pay the price." There's an episode of the show Superman and Lois where a company is going to open a branch in Smallville and Clark and Lois aren't 100% because said company isn't talking about benefits or decent wages, meanwhile, the people of Smallville are all for this company because that means jobs will be created and said CEO wasn't happy Lois Lane was sniffing around and was threatening to pull back on the deal.

And before he even helps Sang-woo's mom and Sae-byeok's brother, he goes and dyes his fucking hair!

@@alexvaughan1013 lol exactly!

In the end, when he abandoned his daughter, I absolutely hated him. I don't care if he was being a "hero". Other than the biscuit game, he couldn't win anything himself, he used his friends as a human ladder to get to the top and *could not* save anybody. What good is it doing him to go back there? To use more human rungs and achieve what exactly? He's not gonna win anything. He could have been a good father finally but he blew it. Just my opinion.

Illegal immigration is a choice. Sae-byok was exploited because people in North Korea are so deeply uneducated and propagandized that she very well could have been considered a victim.

@@chrisburch1406 Sae-byok is best girl, and character. Though I did like her friend.

@@chrisburch1406 I mean apart from being brainwashed or fear, who wouldn't want to leave North Korea after all?

I didn't really like Sae-byok - she literally stole someone else's property and was ready to literally kill other people as well. Ali, on the other hand, was very naive - he got tricked very easily. People are being killed for that in real life.

Remember, North Korea was so shitty that Sae-byok rather play a death game than go back

Or... Or was barely mentioned, and nearly at the end and doesn't change any of his choices.

Also, I am pro-capitalism. That's what this whole video is about. It's not exactly a secret.

@@FEEonline Why does it matter that it was barely mentioned or nearly at the end? Context is still context. Doesn't change any of his choices? Do you honestly think that if he wasn't laid-off or blacklisted from new jobs, he'd still be the way he is? Who knows, maybe if he wasn't laid-off, he'd be more responsible. I mean, think about it. It wasn't his fault that Dragon Motors laid-him off, he had no say in that decision . When he fought back, he was punished. This is clearly a failure in the systems part. Imagine your youtube account was deleted for reasons out of your control and when you protest, your banned from ever making a new channel. You did nothing wrong, It's the system that did something wrong. I'm not saying I support socialism, but this stuff happens when government does too little.

@@crapydevices9198 him being a terrible father and stealing from his mom - who has supported him for years instead of him finding another job - are not caused by being fired. Almost everyone will be fired or laid off at some point in their lives. I certainly have been. The idea of just giving up on life because of it is a personal choice, and an absurd one.

@@crapydevices9198 BTW, striking is *always* going to be a risk you take at the possible expense of your job or career. It's a gamble that the company cares more about you and the other employees and doesn't have sufficient alternatives other than to meet your new demands. Sometimes it's worth the risk. Other times it's not. Sometimes you should just quit and go get a better job. But Gi-hun took that risk and got burned. That was also his choice.

Squid game had awful acting, so over the top. And the characters were meh. The plot was really slow. The night murder scene was just a black screen> I could go on. This series was average. Perhaps average is good in this age of shtty tv?

@@TheBelrick Average? The idea of people competing in children's games turned deadly for money is something completely new and different from the other movies in Western television often about saving the world, superpowers, school or office drama. The character plots were good as well. And what part of the acting was over the top? I don't know why you would call the show average.

@@kseniachevenard839 You mean like say running man from the 1990s? Trust me kid, this movie isnt original. and the characters were awful to watch. that darkness scene was a crime against cinema. All the acting was over the top, really childish extreme actions. Re watch the movie. Note down their conversation. Then act it out the emotional scenes. No one is like that in real life.

@@TheBelrick You forget the situation the characters are in. In their daily lives they struggle to make a basic living, and during the game they can die at any time. So one movie from the 1990s that I'm betting nor many people today have watched had the same idea. That is still so much better than the hundreds of recent movies that basically all revolve around the plots I mentioned. The darkness scene was one scene. The point of the scene was for it to be chaotic also. Why did you need to see exactly how the contestants died? It was light enough to make out what was happening, but of course not as clearly as if the lights were actually on.

@@kseniachevenard839 Im going to hard disagree and state, that if you didnt find the actions and dialogue of these characters alien, you dont get out much or you are not from this world. Go in peace.

I'll take "shit you'd expect Kim Jong Un to say" for $300.

3 as of now

11 now

@@Mcgowanlol You can see the dislikes?

@@pedropradacarciofi2517 I can see them but idk if it’s because I’m on mobile or because I have KZfaq premium.

I can't see them on both my computer and phone wtf

Me too

Same

1. The show isn't just a blanket critique of capitalism. It's about human nature and what people will do when desperate 2. Just because you criticizes the negatives of capitalisms doesn't me you automatically endorse communism. I'm fairly certain that the show intentionally portrays Sae Byeok's plight to get save her family from North Korea in a positive light.

yeah because we cannot criticize stuff just because there´s worse stuff, you dorks really hate free expression when it's about looking at our own systems

@@lulustuckie6030 that's the problem with this channel and almost all the people in the comments. They are so corny when someone point out failures in the system they say the same as the socialist, it's not real capitalism. It's not fault of capitalism, then blame something else.

You say he's overthinking it then repeat everything he said.

@@colemin2 I think he focused too much on the capitalism aspect which ruined his immersion. Sorry, I didn't mean to repeat, I just wanted to emphasise that everyone else, like the mother characters where actually doing fine sticking to an honest living (which he touched on)

again... the creator of the show himself say it's a show about "capitalism" and "extreme competition" and leftist started using the show as an example of how "capitalism is bad", so nothing is overthought here. Creator of this video is just a response and he showed even examples of articles in the video saying it's about "capitalism", so your comment makes no much sense.

@@MamRadVlaky Ironically enough. The show also displayed that good can be done with capitalism. Hell the show it self was produced thanks to capitalism.

Is Kaiji a show or anime?

@@SomeDigitalGhost It's a manga that got an anime. It's on crunchyroll I think. But there is way more manga than there is anime

@@pedropradacarciofi2517 I'd rather read the manga, and after the stunt they pulled with high guardian spice, I'm not in any hurry to give crunchyroll money to hear them lie about how they'll spend it.

According to some people it is about dehumanizing the masses by the elite and dividing us, and it's why there is so many occult themes, I don't remember where I heard this from though

@@Alexmarill interesting. To me it was about a bunch of losers making really bad choices.

@@TheMichaelMove that is true, though it is not really anti capitalist

literally not socialism but ok

If capitalism is really good at giving people what people really want, why are we sanctioning Cuba just because they're socialist? If the people of Cuba want socialism (and yes, they do, don't waste my time with propaganda) why don't capitalists let them have it without restriction if capitalism gives people what they want? If capitalism gives people what they want, why won't the gov cancel student aid debt, a policy favored by almost all student loan recipients? Why won't they pass Medicare for All, another policy favored by the majority of U.S. citizens? It's because capitalism doesn't give people what they want. It gives the capitalists what they want. And no one else, except by coincidence. Wake up.

@@witprole3050 "(and yes they do, don't waste my time with propaganda)" Bruh, what? Did you just forget all the anti-government protests against the Cuban governments authoritarianism and censorship? They were literally waving American flags ffs

@@MasterBeast46 Yeah, that was American propaganda, because the MAJORITY of activists there were PRO-GOVERNMENT who want to keep their socialist system in tact and KNOW that the only reason their country struggles is because of the disgusting sanctions and embargoes the U.S. places on their nation to keep them impoverished and deprived of resources. Of course the American MSM wouldn't show THEM and their overwhelming numbers, which is precisely what makes it propaganda. Wake up.

You have no idea what capitalism is like in south korea if you are making such ignorant comments from your high horse. Absolutely soul sucking society with no room for joy. Everything is about money, money, power and more money. Capitalism at it's most degenerate, no joy, no culture left. Everything replaced with brands and consumerism.

​@@witprole3050 Fake news, bud. We all know authoritarian Cuba sucks dick for its citizens. No wonder you see twitter bots making a copy pasted argument to lift the embargo and let the foreigners in from accounts that seem to reek of CIA.

You've basically stepped into the big debate between Anarcho-Capitalists and Minarchists. Lots of people will have differing opinions on the role of government in a free society.

@@michaelspence2508 That's fair, and I understand it's a delicate question. I am little more than an armchair economist, but I think that there is a role for the government in the economy, though am unsure as to *what* it should be. Standard Oil exists as an argument for and against intervention. I doubt Rockefeller could have gotten as far as he did without greasing the pockets of some politicians, but at the same time, I think antu trust laws are a good idea.

@@coltondodger Well I'm in the same boat. I've tried to study economics on my own time, but I don't have any answers and I'm suspicious of those who are confident in theirs.

In any case, it's a problem with HUMAN corruption and moral failings. All systems are subject to this. Socialism moreso because it only takes the moral failings of one or a few at the top to corrupt the entire system, where Capitalism is distributed so each entities impact is far less on the entire thing. In my opinion, the biggest buffer to thile problems you describe in Capitalism is the society has got to have a strong and shared moral belief system. The US was a powerhouse because of Christianity (say what you will on it), compared to today where we have a country made of a mishmash of beliefs, morals (including NO morals) that is rotting it inside out.

@@dragons_red I absolutely agree. The problem is that Christianity wasn't built to survive the modern era of science and so it's no longer fit for purpose. Although I admit that it's in the process of being redefined now by people like Jordan Peterson. Not that I think he goes far enough. But we clearly need a common moral framework from *somewhere*

@brien I think you have it backward. Children are the ones who think that throwing tantrums, hitting people, ignoring other people's property rights and taking things that don't belong to you are OK. Adults respect other people's choices and property rights.

As for the thing you think I "skipped"... Gi-hun made the decision to do something he knew his employer wouldn't like. *No one* should get physically hurt or arrested for simply striking, of course, and anyone who does try to force people to work for them should be in jail... But none of that changes the fact that Gi-hun made the initial choice, and he made a ton of choices after that. Getting fired didn't make him never get another job. It didn't make him a terrible father. It didn't make him gamble away all his money after promising he would take his daughter out to dinner. It didn't make him steal from his mother and try to cheat nearly everyone he meets. And if you think that his experience is a "very common issue" under capitalism, wait til you find out what happens in socialist countries that don't care about human rights at all. allthatsinteresting.com/cannibal-island

@@FEEonline Doing something "your employer doesn't like" is grounds enough to have your livelihood taken away? And what if the employer does something their employee doesn't like? Whats their punishment? Very voluntary and free system you have there. As for not getting another job, that was explicitly explained in the show and is historically accurate. Korea had a massive economic crisis which saw a huge percentage of the population lose their jobs. After that, millions of jobs moved overseas to countries with poorer worker rights. The jobs market has still not recovered to this day and many people have not been able to find a job since. That is a very real story for thousands of Koreans and a problem directly caused by capitalism. There's a reason this show resonated so hard with people. I won't defend his decision to steal from his mom. I think the show is pretty explicit in condemning that action. But that doesn't make him an automatically bad person. He was desperate. Put in a desperate situation by a system entirely outside his control. Desperate people do stupid things. But also, what was he supposed to do? He wasn't exactly buying Lamborghinis. He took out loans from predatory people because the alternative was homelessness and probably death. He wasn't gambling for fun. He was gambling because that was the only chance he saw to not get tortured to death by loan sharks. Maybe a system which forces people to make those decisions isn't as free and voluntary as you'd like to think. I won't even bother clicking that link. It's just a whataboutism. Yeah bad things happen in socialist countries too. Oooo got me.

@@dannehrbass2977 if you do something your employer doesn't like, they no longer need to employ you and give you money. If they do something you don't like, you no longer need to provide your time and labor to them. He wasn't in a desperate situation. He was in a stupid one of his own making. He didn't need to take out loans or be homeless. He took out loans to gamble. We're we even watching the same show? In any case... South Korea is massively wealthier than North Korea *because* of capitalism. It is one of the greatest natural experiments you could get in economics. A tale of two approaches to economic organization. By the way... South Korea's unemployment rate has averaged around 3.5% for over a decade, with the very brief exception of the end of 2020/beginning of 2021 where it peaked at 5.5%.

@@dannehrbass2977 and no, not just "bad things"... *vastly* worse things. Constantly.

If it really messes your head then consider building some foundations for it. Some resources to check out are Thomas Sowell's Basic Economics, Hayek's Road to Serfdom, and George Gilder's Life After Google and his really interesting Uncommon Knowledge interviews with Peter Robinson Gilder is heavily overlooked of the 3, and is also the author of Life After Television which actually helped Steve Jobs envision the smartphone industry as we know it today. Highly recommend his interviews after you at least look into Sowell first as the two are contemporaries whom Gilder even cites in his own work too.

@@epsilon3821 Thanks, I'll check those out

@@strokernut Yeah what you really want is just some clarity. Simplicity. There's so much going on that people overlook things that are only obvious when one actually tries to think independently. Thinking back now, perhaps you have some misconceptions that will set you back so your priority then is to check out Thomas Sowell's interview on Economic Facts and Fallacies. To the layman, it seems like a counterintuitive explanation of economics but is backed by actual evidence like how price controls are actually hurting the economy as a whole.

oH GOood i was almost going to see the faults of the current situation!!! now time to go back into the wagie cagie ! thank god we ain't like those reds. WE HAVE ACTUAL LIBERTY the liberty to go to a job you hate to go to your house that you don't own to pay student loans for an education that you need to get out of that situation (or atleast you would have if you didn't need 64 years of experience). But hey atleast i ain't like those commies who didn't own anything, i don't lease from the goverment i choose who to lease from because it is my god given right

@@archafromdmc1913 Come back in a few years kid you need a social media detox from all that rot making you incapable of independent thinking

I think you missed the point of something

@@witprole3050 At which point? Feel free to elaborate. I still stand by what I said about Squid Games not being about Capitalism failing.

@@driddick7361 Squid Game is unmistakably about the failures of capitalism. The characters wouldn't be in this position if it weren't for capitalism. It has created their desperation by putting them in unmanageable debt and relegating them to dead end jobs or dangerous lifestyles so they'll never be able to escape that debt. The characters aren't making bad choices. They're doing what they must to survive. The game's just rigged against them. Capitalism compels them to despise and even kill each other. Just look: Sang-woo, who earlier gave Ali money for cab fare, deceives him in the marble game to ensure his death. It's not simply that Sang-woo is out to kill or a bad person at heart. Capitalist conditions drive him to act in terrible ways. Same with Gi-hun. He manipulates Oh Il-nam's dimensia (or so he thinks) to save his own life and beat the man at marbles. Plus you can't even say they ALL made terrible choices. What terrible choice did Ali make? His boss refused to pay him what he was owed. Sae-byeok paid someone to get her mother out of the North and he flaked. Meaning she got cheated. Are you saying anyone who gets cheated made a terrible choice? The series even points out that, like you're doing, we blame each other for problems caused by capitalism, as when Gi-hun's ex-wife blames him for not being there for his daughter's birth. But he explains the company he was working for had a striking worker killed and he couldn't leave the man in his dying moments. If capitalism didn't put workers in a position where they needed to strike to maintain their rights, Gi-hun wouldn't have missed his child's birth. And I love how everyone's like, "Oh, these characters just made terrible choices," but apparently, obscenely wealthy men creating a death game for their pleasure isn't a terrible choice. They weren't even getting anything out of it financially, that could have just given these folks the money or held a lottery or whatever. Mustn't criticize the saintly capitalists however!

@@witprole3050 I see where you're coming from. But the good choices having bad consequences are not what I am referring too. Nor am I implying that all the main cast is horrible people. I was incredibly upset when the old man got done dirty in the marble game at first. Now when I say flaws, I mean how the characters are slowly becoming more and more corrupt, until eventually they become the people that tricked them into the game. Also, in a purely capitalist scenario, rigging certain events or such, tend to bite the perpetrators in the ass when they can't keep up. And mine you, one of the characters is a North Korean defector, I don't see any anti-capitalism in that scenario, she is trying to ESCAPE North Korea. Also, let's not neglect the psychos controlling the squid games, rich or otherwise, they are more likely crime lords. This is not a normal capitalist scenario. These people are not being given fair shakes or a chance to get back up. Capitalism is not one and done, usually people live through failure. I am not saying that the characters got there through ENTIRELY their own faults, they ended up in the Squid Games because their problems, self caused or otherwise, were exploited by criminals. And as FEE has stated, whenever the games seem to have more survivors than intended, the Squid Game owners intervene like how the government tends to in the market. Also, situations like Gi-Hun's coworker dying, how is that the fault of capitalism? Again, no sane business owner kills their worker. That worker would be an asset lost. No this part I must've missed, how big is the company that Gi-Hun works for? Are they actually paying their workers well enough? Capitalist ideology doesn't make anyone a saint anymore than Communist ideology makes any small time person a mass murderer. But what you described is a corporation screwing people over because they have the power to do so. Now please continue, I would like your reply.

@@driddick7361 Obviously the game-players don't become "the people that tricked them into the game." The only way to make this claim is to erase class consciousness. If they became those that tricked them into the game, they would have the power to change the games and to order around the gun-wielding enforcers in pink. And they wouldn't even need to participate because they'd have the sort of wealth that would alleviate their economic anxieties. What the series DOES try to point out is that capitalism, regardless of your class position, creates greed and selfishness and forces you to indulge in them for the sake of your very survival. Whether it's the billionaires in the gilded masks or the exploited contestants, they're all responding to impulses engendered by the social structure they're living under. It wouldn't even be accurate to call this corruption. Corruption insinuates something went wrong or was contaminated. In fact, this is exactly how capitalism is supposed to function. The only reason we think it doesn't is because of a brilliant marketing machine. And why might Sae-byeok be trying to escape North Korea? Could it be because of the disgusting sanctions and embargoes CAPITALIST countries place upon the country to keep it poverty-ridden (no different than the U.S. has been doing to Cuba for decades)? Because we couldn't allow a socialist country to be successful. We have to pull the strings, tank a country, so we can then say, "See? Communism fails!" in a self-fulfilling prophecy. The game is always rigged in capitalism. It's how the system works. Capitalists steal the money that's created by their workers' labor. This is where profit comes from. It's why it's called "wage theft." Then they use their wealth to rig the game further. Bezos buys WaPo to publish anti-union articles right when Amazon workers are going on strike. Capitalists use lobbyists and campaign donations to shape laws to their benefit, laws that are bad for us. Wealthy people are given "legacy admits" to college (essentially free/reserved/guaranteed admissions thanks to a sizable donation) then they decry affirmative action. And if you really think Squid Game's depictions of these rich folk are exaggerations, the capitalists have succeeded at pulling the wool over your eyes. Epstein bought an island no different than the one we see in Squid Game. But instead of using it for death games, he and Ghislaine Maxwell used it to run a sex-trafficking ring where they turned women into sex slaves. No, capitalism does NOT present us with a fair game. Wealth begets wealth, and if you don't have it, you're out of luck. And it boggles my mind that you can't see how Gi-hun's coworker dying is directly capitalism's fault. The workers go on strike to preserve their rights and a livable wage and THE CAPITALISTS, in response, HAVE THEM KILLED. It's called union-busting, it's one of the oldest capitalist tricks in the book, and erasing it from our memories is probably one of the most successful feats the capitalists have managed in this class war.

Corporatism is a problem in our society.

“The help”. Talking about them like they’re objects and not people

@@ianj705 Both are families, it's been a year and I didn't remember their names so I was simply identifying them as I could. Would you prefer I said the family of liars? Go clown someone else

@@ianj705 How? "The help" is just a title for a group of people who do a certain job. Is calling someone "The accountant" equivalent to dehumanising them too?

... Then how come she's betting her life to bring her mother over and not just returning herself and her brother? Isn't the mere fact that she's there kind of destroys your argument? Furthermore, you do know that it is necessary for liberalism to not restrict the rights of the citizens, above all the right of free speech. So you kind of just admitted it's not liberalism.

That's just says more about the brain washing of America than it does about the show you probably don't even understand what capitalism actually even is you think it's an the ability to buy stuff or something like that...

@@fistpump64 😂😂😂 ok buddy 😂😂😂have a nice day

@@situzifeng No what is capitalism tell me what does capitalism mean

@@fistpump64 lol dude you can look it up in a dictionary or google or wikipedia. No need for me to explain it to you what is capitalism. I just found it hilarious that you dont even know me, but you make such rude assumption that im stupid or retarded. I dont take offence to your comment, im not new to being on the internet. Have a nice day.

It was a critique of patriarchy ! ! !

Its mostly because when communists say it, they are only really saying it to give an excuse to repeat the same mistakes of communism over and over again until people are truly coerced into thinking that communism is good. They also use it to help make the whole concept of communism more vague and open to reinterpretation thanks to wordplay. When capitalists refer to capitalism and corporatism, both terms were clearly defined, and so the capitalists can use the terms correctly depending on the situation. If its merely the actions of private entities in free market conditions, it is capitalism. If there are interfering parties, usually governments, extremists, and people with a political agenda, it is corporatism.

@@jeffmates1619 so there never was a real capitalism?

He didn't like the show, that's why. He literally says its not healthy to spend nine hours watching human misery. What else do you need to know, other than the video's defense of capitalism

Could you give an example. I come from Singapore and for the most part we have adopted a largely free market based approach with the only real socialist policies being a forced savings account so you don't have to rely as much on others and public scholarships using taxpayer money for the most competent of students. There is barely any government intervention in markets other than in Media and public sectors for merit goods such as education or healthcare which basically maintains the cost of those goods at the lowest price for those who want to pay it. Tax rates here are also extremely low in comparison to other countries.

@@incognitonotsure909 Singapore may have a free market but it's government is heavily involved in the economy of Singapore, healthcare, labor, regulations and control of land and public housing and education.

@@incognitonotsure909 they also prefer to support and augment the market and use price-based intervention and don't utilize control or command methods. They also utilize industrial policy, intervention in vehicle ownership with the ERP (electronic road pricing) and a Workfare intervention.

Regulation is the one that causes cronyism in the first place.

Anti capitalism show make the anti capitalism creator rich and consumed by anti capitalism consumer. The beauty of capitalism.

I'd accept that in general, were it not for the fact that the creator explicitly said he thought of it as a critique of capitalism. If not for that, I'd say most people were just getting it wrong and overstating what it actually is, which is a character study of desperation.

It is. It is also open, leading to lots of entrepreneurs coming up with new ideas, breaking existing business models, and adding their own ideas to the competitive field... So for as many people are being outcompeted and may lose business, new people are entering the market all the time.

@@FEEonline yes, but isn’t that by definition predatory? And also produces a lot more unnecessary stuff in the world? The fact that arms manufacturers and medicine is in the capitalist system is mind blowing and most likely immoral (other conversation) and leads to companies not wanting to cure disease, but just treating it like a chronic illness and gives the wrong incentives

@@whatitdo5966 not at all! It's the process by which we improve everyone's lives. You are starting, incorrectly, with the assumption that there are obvious, predetermined best solutions to all sorts problems... But there aren't. We do not know what's going to be the best, most effective, efficient, etc. way to heat or cool a home; build a car; produce food; or make any of millions of other products we all use and enjoy every day. What happens is, *entrepreneurs* offer options and - in a capitalistic market economy - *consumers* choose among them, ultimately deciding which is best for them... And as that process unfolds, some entrepreneurs earn profits, others earn losses, some business models thrive, others fail, and through those price signals, we all learn how to make better products more efficiently and solve new problems that people may have never before realized could even be solved in some cases. It's not "unnecessary" stuff. It's the rise of our standards of living as judged by the end users themselves.

@@whatitdo5966 also, neither large scale arms manufacturing nor medicine are predominately produced inside a capitalist market. They are produced inside a monopsony system where the state is the main/only buyer. Very, very different.

@@FEEonline I'm not talking about whether it improves lives although I agree it improves some people's lives. In America the most capitalist country in the world, almost 30% of people are in debt with collectors. I know entrepreneurs is what everyone aspires to, but entrepreneurs who aren't super rich get fucked. I mean because of the stock market (I don't know if this is also part of capitalism), people's wages get cut a shit ton or don't move at all because these companies would rather pay their shareholders/CEOs get paid obscene bonuses. I don't even have a point I just wanna know your opinion, you make good content. I would also disagree with the making things more efficiently thing because I've seen too many times where things are made terribly, but maybe that has more to do with laws (lack of) and regulations as opposed to the system of capitalism itself.

Talking Heads? the fucking writer of the show so it's about capitalism

This disingenuous arse (the video creator) has no problem sarcastically responding to someone (recently) when they expected a more rigorous definition of communism. But when someone like you brings out legitimate criticisms, complete silence.

Spoken by a clown with no class consciousness

Well first. Not right wing. Secondly, the majority of the characters *were* stupid and irresponsible, and as such were pretty unsympathetic. They even had a choice (twice!) to participate.

@@FEEonline Yes. Right wing. Come on, I’m not stupid. The far majority of the comments here are right wing. They were used by the wealthy powerful people that set the game up. If you approach desperate people with a way to make money, they will do pretty bad things. Yes they made the bad decision, but to not blame the person that created the circumstances is very telling.

@@frisater96 I'm not right wing. I cannot speak for anyone else. But again, no. The wealthy and powerful didn't make Gi Hun a deadbeat or someone who steals from his mom and breaks every promise he makes to his daughter. They didn't make his buddy embezzle money and commit fraud. They didn't make Jang Deok-su a gangster and a violent thug. The only main character that you can say that about is Sae Byeok, but she was a defector from Communist North Korea. So....... Watch again.

For the most part, the game preyed on people who had made a mess of their lives on their own. This is part of why using it as a metaphor for society being ruined by rich people doesn't really work.

@@FEEonline That’s pretty convenient for you, I understand why you just hint at your beliefs in the videos now. Why do you think you have all these right wingers in your comments then? Maybe because they are drawn to your ideology? Again, it’s pretty telling that you completely look past the evil monstrous capitalists that manipulate them into a murder game and just blame the participants, missing the entire intended message of the show. But again, it’s pretty typical of right wingers to lack any sort media literacy.

Then again, people get bored of such movies despite displaying such levels of hope because its so redundant, overplayed and a cop-out. Isabela from Encanto has said that she is sick of something pretty and wants something real. Oh btw, Encanto managed ti be hopeful yet so real in most parts that it was a compelling movie. On average, a show like Squid Game just genuinely appeals because it was so real one way or another. But that doesn't mean I don't support movies that try to be hopeful. I just don't support movies or any form of medium and especially advices from anyone that just forces positivity and optimism. Because when you force that on others, it's just toxic. Using your example as Marvel. Yeah I can see people love Endgame because it was genuine in bringing such hope sensibly and not in any distracting contrivance. Something like Black Widow? Absolutely predictable and forced positivity just because she's Black Widow. Absolutely disappointing of a movie despite the saving performances of the actors. A movie or any form of medium is splendid, superb or spectacular if it is genuine with itself. If its not and its just either optimism or cynicism for the sake of it, then it's just not good.