• PeterTheAverage [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    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.

    • Sen_Jen [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      Also the second episode is about how desperate they are under capitalism and how poverty traps people and strips them of their dignity

      • SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        ...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.

        • Rojo27 [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          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.

          • SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]
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            3 years ago

            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

            Survivorship bias is so strong, and it's so hard to disabuse people of it

        • Sen_Jen [they/them]
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          3 years ago

          Obviously the message is "hey what if this happened in real life. Would that be fucked or what"