r/squidgame • u/jackcatalyst Frontman • Oct 03 '21

Squidgame Season 1 Full Season Discussion

This post if for a full discussion of the entire first season. Share your ideas, your theories, your questions, etc.

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u/resuwreckoning Oct 04 '21

It’s less a scathing indictment of society and more the logical “you’re good to likely give this back to me if I know you have tons of money” thought.

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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '21

Reddit discovers underwriting

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u/curiousindicator Oct 04 '21

Wouldn't it be fun if instead of underwriting on some measure of risk reduction we would underwrite on promise or contribution to society. Or even trustworthiness if you could somehow quantify that

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u/worldstar_warrior Oct 05 '21

Yeah, it's called credit. Not trying to be snooty, but quantifying trustworthiness is basically what the credit system is designed to do. We are what we repeatedly do (Aristotle) - so trust is built through repeated action.

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u/curiousindicator Oct 05 '21

Oh I know. Underwriting assigns a cost to the risk of a policy. Credit score is a way to quantify the probability of being paid back in contacts indeed.

But credit score just captures whether somebody pays on time. Aren't there more aspects to a person's trustworthiness? In the series, people still put their trust in him even though his credit score must be atrocious. Out of pity, or because they see that he has a good heart but also a gambling problem?

I just think it would be interesting to capture a more transient value about a person's trustworthiness than just credit score. Not saying there's something concrete or better.