The breakout Netflix hit Squid Game had everyone abuzz in 2021— but I still can’t bring myself to watch it. In the show, indebted South Koreans experiencing financial ruin fight to the death for a singular cash prize. While I’ve never been part of a dystopian horror show like Squid Game (debtors have never tried to assassinate me), I grew up with just enough money to get by, which provoked an intense fear of the precarity of life, an exhausting “what if?” that never ends.
The Luxury of Not Putting Money First
The Luxury of Not Putting Money First
The Luxury of Not Putting Money First
The breakout Netflix hit Squid Game had everyone abuzz in 2021— but I still can’t bring myself to watch it. In the show, indebted South Koreans experiencing financial ruin fight to the death for a singular cash prize. While I’ve never been part of a dystopian horror show like Squid Game (debtors have never tried to assassinate me), I grew up with just enough money to get by, which provoked an intense fear of the precarity of life, an exhausting “what if?” that never ends.