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> But I guess a show making that particular social critique isn’t going to get funded by a major studio or tech company.

I think my take on that is even more cynical: they'd be absolutely happy to make a story along those lines as long as they could monetize it successfully.

I thought the first season of Squid Game was wonderful and it depressed me to no end to see how thoroughly the whole thing was monetized. I get it, it's the way of the world, but seeing Netflix commission a "real life" game show, kids in Squid Game outfits at Halloween, the fact that the second season largely exists because the creator was financially screwed out of the first... I don't think it's possible to make a broader argument about any of this stuff without the distributors immediately undermining it.




> the creator was financially screwed out of the first.

I wasn't aware of that until watching this recently: The Capitalist Body Horror of Squid Game https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCxNnAAbKk4




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