An image still from the commercial breaks in the Netflix show Squid Game season 3. On the right side of the image is a transparent golden piggy-bank filled almost to the brim with South Korean won. This is one of the icons closely associated with Squid Game. In the show, desperate players drowning in financial debt compete against each other to the death to try to earn 45.6 billion won, the equivalent of over $33 million US Dollars. The more players that die, the more prize money is added to the piggy bank. Rich “VIPs” also bet on players for their own amusement. On the left side of the image is the text “Presented by experian. Your Big Financial Friend. A BFF for life.” Experian is one of the three major credit reporting bureaus in the United States. Since 1989, credit scores as reported by the major credit reporting bureaus have been used to control people’s ability to get loans including credit cards, real estate loans, and vehicle loans. In recent years, their use has been expanded to control access to far more basic resources, such as housing and jobs.
This is so wrong. They’re just openly laughing at us.
Luigi can’t be the only Mario Brother trying to save the kingdom. You’re a team. Your princess is not in another castle: we need you here, and we need you now.
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