Squid Game’s death-games allegorize the psychological burnouts of workers excluded from upward mobility

Evidence

Squid Game thus allegorizes the devastating effects of global capital on daily life when the economies of countries such as South Korea are “developed” through global financial investment—that is, if unions are broken, if workers’ wills are brought to heel—with the threat of death implied by the show’s “games” paralleling the deaths caused by despair, exhaustion, and burnout experienced by those beyond the boundaries of upward mobility as an economy “develops.” — Grant Bollmer, Katherine Guinness, The Influencer Factory, 321