"The point of Squid Game is not to explain to us that “capitalism is bad,” but rather this: we already know, all too well, that capitalism is bad, but we keep returning to a dire, money-obsessed system, morphing into characters that consciously choose, game after game, to participate in our (and one another’s) demise."
https://dev.lareviewofbooks.org/article/why-are-we-stuck-here-squid-game-trauma-and-repetition/