I finished watching the second season of Squid Game on Netflix in one go and felt unsatisfied, so I rewatched the first season from three years ago. I've also read many reviews, but many people seem not to have grasped the true intentions of the creative team. In this article, I will try to share my feelings from my experiences in the crypto space over the past few years combined with this TV series! I will also discuss the relationship between this TV series and the current state of the crypto industry!
The background setup in the first season of Squid Game to the rebellion in the second season is actually a continuous thread. The creative team wants more people to understand the harsh life of those at the bottom through life-and-death tests and comparisons:
People at the bottom have no way out!
Strictly speaking: people at the bottom or even the middle class have no way out.
In other words, the essence of the game's setting in the entire real world is like this:
Ordinary people, or 99% of people, are NPCs in the entire world's game, non-playable characters!
The entire world's setting is designed for people like Musk, Zuckerberg, and Jack Ma, who can easily change their destiny, or the setting is just a collection of inspirational legendary stories!
And we are merely the background in the game, just a shadow in the larger picture, that's all!
Our existence is to pull the grindstone, to ensure that this world can function normally!
Do people at the bottom really have no way out?
Yes, but very few!
We have been indoctrinated since childhood that hard work leads to success, but now it seems like nonsense!
It's to persuade us to continue pulling the black cloth over our eyes!
Many stories we see about people changing their fate focus on these successful individuals, and there is only one point: they recognized the rules governing the world's operation early on and demanded that they change themselves according to these rules!
The rules governing the world are hard to describe in words. Simply put, you must not accept your fate; if you do, you will be a donkey for a lifetime, and even your descendants will continue to be donkeys pulling the grindstone!
The male lead in the drama, who was lucky enough to emerge from 456 people, watches everyone around him die one by one, and internally he is in immense pain. This pain intensifies his motivation to resist!
Many people wonder why the male lead became so nurturing in the second season?
My understanding: this is not nurturing, but the kindness deep within!
Many people lose their initial kindness after changing their fate!
To be fair, currently, there are very few active playable characters who still maintain their original kindness!
They constantly whitewash their own interest groups, making us ordinary people believe that the world is as we see it, and the purpose is nothing more than to consolidate their own interest groups!
The experience of the male lead becoming a legend made him realize that he must dismantle the entire game group to prevent further tragedies, so even after gaining 45.5 billion won, he continues to resist resolutely!
Regardless of whether it succeeds, the creative team wants to tell people that this spirit is worthwhile!
Wanting to resist is not that easy!
The results of several generations of hard work cannot be easily overturned by someone who just became rich!
Of course not!
The character number 001 in the second season, Huang Renhao, is a typical representative. He was the winner in 2015, but he firmly stood in the ranks of the game's organizers and steadfastly implemented the policies of the game setters!
He even infiltrated the ranks of the resistance to create chaos!
The entire game's setting, compared to reality, is it not just a reflection of the real world?
Or it is more like the current state of the crypto space!
Many people in the crypto space have become wealthy through Bitcoin or other altcoins, but what's next?
Then they become the new game setters, continuing to dominate and exploit those who come after!
For example, opening exchanges to let everyone lose money, or issuing junk coins to continue harvesting profits!
No one has ever stood up to resist, or before we waited for the resistance to gain momentum, they were already eliminated!
Can we ordinary people only accept our fate? Are we willingly contributing our energy to VIP players?
It is not, but there are indeed very few paths. The second season of the drama does not offer a solution, and in the real world, no one can set an example.
Many people pin their hopes on Musk's Mars colonization plan, but ordinary people will never earn enough money for a ticket to Mars in their lifetime!
At this moment, we need an effective solution and a group of leading figures~
People cannot gather in a disorganized manner; we need to learn from wolf packs, learn from sharks!
There must be a plan that allows a group to become collectively wealthy, at least allowing participants to become rich together. I asked ChatGPT and Grok, and the answers given were:
https://x.com/alex_bitcoin1m/status/1873172823969284328
https://x.com/i/grok/share/UtZzKuMdVIB1zj5FByNKKVI9O
Both answers have two common points: UBI and improving cognition. UBI is universal basic living security, but this requires real money to be distributed, and at this stage, no company can achieve that!
Unless artificial intelligence can liberate a large amount of productivity and produce a large number of goods that humans cannot manufacture, then distribute them to humans.
Needless to say about cognition, this is almost a consensus: improving cognition is a prerequisite for increasing wealth, but it is not a sufficient condition. In other words, having high cognition does not necessarily mean you can make money; it also requires another better condition, which is that your efforts are not wasted. Everything you put your energy and time into must generate appropriate value. This means there must be a point that allows your energy and time to grow exponentially!
This point may be the cryptocurrency blockchain, as well as riding the express train of artificial intelligence!
Ultimately, there is still no reliable solution at this stage, but I hope that friends reading these words can look to the future, improve their cognition, and fully learn about cryptocurrencies, as this industry is still in its early stages and lacks a leading figure.
If no one stands up, I am willing to be that leading figure, providing support for all early investors in SharkDao!
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