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If they wanted to win, they should have tried not being poor (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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[–] 25 points 1 year ago (7 children)

There's a great line in Disco Elysium that describes this phenomenon. I'm paraphrasing here, but the gist of it is something like this:

The great and terrible genius of capitalism is its ability to commodify evening, including criticism of itself.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    The great and terrible genius of capitalism is its ability to commodify evening, including criticism of itself.

    Sounds like Squid Game. I love the show, but selling merchandise, and going on to have more seasons and spin off defeats the point of the first season.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    They had a cliffhanger and an unresolved plot line. There was always going to be a season 2. The surprise split into 2 small seasons was weird, but after the third the story is pretty much wrapped up.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago*

    They had a cliffhanger

    I will have to respectfully disagree. Many people say the ending is a cliff hanger but I feel that it is open-ended. But i guess its phenomenal success was too good to pass up and decided to go for more seasons.

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