I'm only on the fourth episode but some shady group finds hundreds of desperate people who are hopelessly in debt and gets them to play a bunch of games where the losers end up being brutally killed, and the winners will win enough to forgive their debt. Before the first game the participants didn't know they could be killed, but even after they find out the vast majority of them stay for more because of their desperate financial situation.
Yeah. Everyone I know that is talking about it never mentions how it's an allegory for how fucked up capitalism is.
Hell. The guy who wrote the script himself seemed to be in a pretty bad place and it took 10 years for the script to be picked up. So now people are being sold on a "pick yourself up by the bootstraps" story rather than the anti-capitalist one that I'm sure the writer intended it to be.
oh yeah it really is like the kpop barracks style housing and selection system and they of course have a shot at making all that money too. Didn't make that connection before :D
Haven't seen the show or heard much about it, anyone care to explain it?
I'm only on the fourth episode but some shady group finds hundreds of desperate people who are hopelessly in debt and gets them to play a bunch of games where the losers end up being brutally killed, and the winners will win enough to forgive their debt. Before the first game the participants didn't know they could be killed, but even after they find out the vast majority of them stay for more because of their desperate financial situation.
Also the second episode is about how desperate they are under capitalism and how poverty traps people and strips them of their dignity
...by forcing them to murder each other as their only hope to get out of poverty, right?
And it's still this lost on people? Hopeless.
Yeah. Everyone I know that is talking about it never mentions how it's an allegory for how fucked up capitalism is.
Hell. The guy who wrote the script himself seemed to be in a pretty bad place and it took 10 years for the script to be picked up. So now people are being sold on a "pick yourself up by the bootstraps" story rather than the anti-capitalist one that I'm sure the writer intended it to be.
Survivorship bias is so strong, and it's so hard to disabuse people of it
Obviously the message is "hey what if this happened in real life. Would that be fucked or what"
Yeah, that'd be...that'd be pretty fucked
From what I’ve gathered it’s like Kpop selection meets battle royale
oh yeah it really is like the kpop barracks style housing and selection system and they of course have a shot at making all that money too. Didn't make that connection before :D
Danganrompa for normal people
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