What Squid Game Says About Capitalism
How to survive the game of life
8 min readOct 28, 2021
The writer of the hit Netflix series Squid Game, Hwang Dong-hyuk, was quite open about his critique of modern capitalism. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, he said:
“Well, these days we are, in fact, living in a deeply unfair and economically challenging world. Especially after the pandemic. I mean, there is…