Conservative Response to Squid Game Is Embarrassing

I found a bad review of Squid Game and had to respond to it. Thanks to Foundation for Economic Education for putting out such a terrible analysis.
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[@phangkuanhoong7967]

lol. so many US conservatives bent over backwards to say Squid Game is about "the follies of communism". It's hilarious.

[@luggystykz]

That definition of capitalism gave me the same vibes as the one PragerU has given before. Describing it as an almost cartoonishly beautiful system in which willing participants trade for everyone’s benefit. It’s so divorced from tangible reality I have to question whether or not it was written with sincerity at all.

[@Rutgo]

I was also getting PragerU vibes.

[@dallasadams7039]

I'm not sure how anyone can watch Squid Games and not see how it's a critique of capitalism. You would have to be pretty disengenuois to not see it.

[@sanpelegrino1312]

I'm not sure how anyone can watch squid games

[@masonguthrie1257]

I mean I think the biggest flaw the show has in its critique of capitalism is many of the characters have made poor choices which brought them to the games. And in general while no system is perfect it seemed to lean way more towards a critique of cronyism rather than capitalism in general but again you do have to take the flaws of an economic system with it which is why something like communism will never be viable.

[@RonTheAnarchist]

The thing worth noting is that it isn't just that people are misunderstanding squid game. They're trying to recuperate it. By saying that it's 'view of capitalism is distorted' and that 'it portrays communism as being just as bad as capitalism', they're twisting the message into, if not a pro-capitalist one, then one mostly neutral on capitalism.

[@kweassa6204]

I'd say the most telling, eye-rolling part of these 'conservative reviews' is when he describes the protagonist in a totally unsympathetic way of "his problems are all self-inflicted." This, is THE right-wing view. In the right-wing sense, there is no such thing as 'problems in the system.' Every mishap, every misfortune, every torment in society, is 'self-inflicted' in the right-wing view. Are you poor? It's because you're lazy. Are you in debt? It's because you didn't work hard enough to save money. Are those debts from ridiculously low wages and high living costs? It's still your fault. If you did better to earn more money it wouldn't be a problem. Are you out of a job? It's your fault. There are tons of jobs out there. If you can agree on the market-decided low wages (no matter how small it is), and emplyer-decided working conditions (no matter how inhuman it is), then you could get hired. It's your fault for having too high hopes and too high standards.

[@JhonatanJustinn]

What an underrated channel. Really good stuff, keep it up

[@basilofgoodwishes4138]

What's even more ironic about people like the ones who made the video you criticize for denying the terrors of capitalism is that in Squid Game, even the richest people, the ones who reached at the top of the very system aren't all that happy. SPOILERS FOR THE VERY END OF SQUID GAME YOH HAVE BEEN ALL WARNED, DO NOT PROCEDE UNTIL YOU WATCHED IT OR IF YOU DON'T CARE FOR SPOILERS! THIS IS YOUR LAST OPPORTUNITY HERE TO WATCH SQUID GAME BLIND, IF YOU WANT TO READ MY COMMENT! After Gi-Hun won and was then getting an inviation to meet with the founder of the games he participated in. It's revealed that the old man Gi-hun, also known later as Oh Ill- nam, befriended and lost to the games survived and together with other rich and snooty guys created the Squid game. He was someone who used to be very poor not unlike the contestants of the games, but once he got super rich he started to get bored with his life and wanted with other rich people who felt the same emptiness find a way to feel joy again by creating the death games. He developed a cynical view that all humans are as selfish and cruel as he is and that there is no real diffrence between the poor and the rich this way and challenged Gi-Hun into a game where they bet whenever a poor man outside will succumb to the cold weather or be helped by someone, Gi-Hun clearly believes in the latter outcome. The poor man outside was saved by a person passing by him and the police, thus Gi-Hun won really against him. In Ill Nam's dying breath, he explained that he really saw Gi-Hun as a friend and wasn't this happy with him as he was before and was reminded of the time where everthing was simple, he died reminiscent of his childhood and the reminder of it with Gi-Hun. So even those who are untouchable cannot be garanteed to be happy due to them pursuing short term hapiness with wealth rather than foster the relationships they have. I assume strongly that when he got Rich, he imieditately tried to fulfil all of his desires and was still not satisfied, due to only fulfilling such empty needs like getting the best stuff and all, but not really fulfilling his needs, friends who are there for him and for whom he is there with. It's pretty much based on Jacques Lacan(the one psychoanalist whoms work has been refferenced by the frontman in his old apartment), on his theory that the fulfilment of desires like drinking Alchohol or getting sex will not lead to happiness in the long run, but rather through fulfilling our needs like drinking Water and establishing a human connection with others. What I said is very simplified and might be accurate to Lacan's theories, but it's clear that Capitalism is a system built on desires rather than needs like Socialism and Communism. Not that having desires are bad, but as long as they don't violate the happiness of others and are understood as giving you short-term happiness instead of ensuring eternal happiness, they are fine. What is not fine are the games and they are the proof that capitalism is going too far now and has to be stopped. How we will do it will be seen in the future, but anyway, great video and it's good to see a story with very intricate and very intriguing themes gets the justice it derserves from those who understand it. Great work again, Rutgo, hopefully you keep it up.

[@TheSerfs]

I am not a squid but I do enjoy a good game and a good video well done

[@orange_turtle3412]

My favorite example is Mr. Beast recreating it in real life. Squid game was made to be a big fat middle finger to people like Jimmy and he just shrugs it off and proceeds to do exactly what the show is telling him not to do. Its not an instruction guide for a cool game show, its a criticism of the exploitation of the poor by the upper class.

[@Anubhavsengupta1902]

Please make a long form video essay exposing every single anti feminist,anti sjw GRIFTERS those guys are annoying and cringy as hell!

[@Allanvre]

his optimistic view of capitalism makes no mention of CAPTIVE markets, such as commodifying basic needs, or things like price gauging patented pharmaceuticals. Under these circumstances, the people are not choosing' to interact with companies that provide the best quality things, rather people are forced under systemic duress to either pay or live in destitution, or without medication, or without nutrition etc.

[@gurrierpl]

Housing Market is the same basically and unlike medicine (in some countries) governments do nothing about it. Even in the most "socialist" western european countries social housing is pretty much non-existent and the mortgage rates and rental prices are at least 1/3 of your wage if you're lucky.

[@earlpipe9713]

I once read that the reasoning behind for profit prisons and targets black males as a main prison population, was that they weren't as productive as other demographics, and they could generate ✌value✌as prisoners within the for profit prison industrial system. Now I don't know how true this is, but just the fact that it could be true, due to fulfilling standards of our capitalist model, is damnation enough of that very model. Speaking of the prison system under modern day capitalism, I'll also speak on something I know is definitely true, and that's how my state's for profit, privatized prisons' need for always expanding profits led to not only giving prisoners years out of date medications to ¢ut ¢orners, but also the undermining of the prison guards union to such an extant, that it led to massive amounts of said guards just quitting outright, as a job like that just isn't worth working without good pay, overtime and benefits. This was followed by a hiring crisis, where they couldn't even fill facilities with skeleton crews, and the closing of some prisons. One good thing to come out of it is that my state's finally forced to do everything it can not to not lock up non violent rule breakers.

[@Pystoria]

I love you Rutgo

[@basilofgoodwishes4138]

He has no advertisments. This makes his channel way better than many other channels.

[@jaysun356]

Tell me you don't understand economics without saying you don't understand economics. All of the "criticisms" of capitalism in this video can be tied back to interventionism and cronyism. The government creates inflation, not businesses. The government creates booms and busts. The government creates winners and losers within the market.

[@kenta4682]

Did the government create the 2008 market crash by deregulating bankers? Why did the government have to step in to save the banker's ass? 'Cronyism' what the fuck are you talking about? Every bad thing that has happened under capitalism IS capitalism, this so-called crony capitalism is just the system perpetuating the self interest of the capitalist. It was profitable for J&J to not fix their baby powder, it was profitable for Nestle to privatize water in Africa and sell it back to people who couldn't even afford it, it was profitable for early car manufacturers to cut corners, it was profitable to use child labor during the gilded age etc etc... The system is made so that greed and self interest thrive, it just so happens there's A LOT of side effects to said greed. Government interventions for the most part have been because of progressive movements by the masses i.e regulating the meat industry after 'The Jungle' came out revealing its dirty secrets. These moments were fought for and paid with blood because the capitalist class does not want change if it affects cost, EVEN IF it doesn't even put them in the reds. The government does not create winners and losers in the market. A small business with limited capital will always lose against a business with more capital and the business with the biggest capital can just buy out their lesser competitors. The government literally had to put anti trust laws in place to stop the so-called free market from becoming a monopoly. Be so for real man.

[@Anubhavsengupta1902]

I have a criticism that you should make long form reasurched and scripted video essays because you videos are really short and have very less information on them but once you make long form video essay just see howmany views you will get in your video I know,I know it's hard but just see howmany views you will get in your video!

[@wilfredkane9149]

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