‘One More Game’: How ‘Squid Game’ Season 2 Hypnotizes Audiences by Toeing the Line Between Dystopia and an Entirely Plausible Modern Reality

What would you do for $38.5 million USD?  For those of us wallowing in the 99%, the prospect of earning millions of dollars by playing a few kid’s games would be hard to pass up. As we look up through a glass ceiling at the billionaire class, while they sip their champagne and enjoy the …
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How ‘Squid Game’ Season 2 Hypnotizes Audiences by Toeing the Line Between Dystopia and a Plausible Modern Reality

What would you do for $38.5 million USD?  For those of us wallowing in the 99%, the prospect of earning millions of dollars by playing a few kid’s games would be hard to pass up. As we look up through a glass ceiling at the billionaire class, while they sip their champagne and enjoy the …
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Amazon Gets Slammed for Allegedly Making Employees Take Hourly, 30 Second «Positive Affirmation» Breaks

For those who despair at the state of the world today for the average working person, Amazon is usually the company that gets trashed as the worst example of everything wrong with the corporate grind. Between the rumors of warehouse employees being forced to wear adult diapers to the embarrassingly obvious sock puppet Twitter accounts …
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Kafkaesque Posts From the Boring Dystopia We Call Earth

Life in the 21st century feels like a bad dark comedy no one would ever pay to see. Every new headline about some evil biotech company developing drugs that make prisoners feel like they’re serving 1,000 year sentences only further proves that the world is somesick jokeand we’re living in a boring dystopia. If you’re …
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Kafkaesque Posts From This Boring Dystopia We Call Earth

Life in the 21st century feels like a bad dark comedy no one would ever pay to see. Every new headline about some evil biotech company developing drugs that make prisoners feel like they’re serving 1,000 year sentences only further proves that the world is some sick joke and we’re living in a boring dystopia. …
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