Gen Z Americans may feel they need to latch onto tragedy, but in the process of facing such conflict, they’ve become known for exploiting it rather than just living through it.
Since survival, under capitalism, is a money game, the “choice” the players are making in Squid Game is not to simply continue playing the game out of a selfish desire to earn money. The real choice is between living and dying, and that doesn’t seem like much of a choice at all.
