Missing link to Squid Game?

 I found Squid game very good, but stopped watching it because it was so nihilistic. One critic said it was "violence porn" and I guess that is as good a description as any.

Would people actually enter a game where the chances of being killed are much much higher than getting rich? And what is the motive for those running the game? 

But now there are rumors that the subplot explains it all: Someone is harvesting the organs of the dead contestants, and many note that this resembles the organ lottery in China, where prisoners organs are taken to match the one who needs it and will pay good money for it.

ah, but never mind. PBS insists China has said it is no longer doing this, and hey, we know China never lies, right?

It is an open secret that China harvests of organs from prisoners, including political prisoners whose only crime is that they follow the wrong religion (the FalunGong, and now the Uighar Muslims).

Dean Koontz book Your Heart Belongs to Me, had this as the subplot.

Here in tne Philippines, there is an illegal organ donation scam that goes on all the time, but not by killing folk, just enticing the poor to give away an organ they don't need for money that they do need (and of course the middleman makes most of the profit).

and I won't even go into the abortion baby parts scams in the USA: it says a lot that the ones who exposed this illegal scam were sued for privacy invasion.

But the baby parts scandal is one reason that pious catholics are against some of the covid vaccines.

and of course, surrogate motherhood is another way to exploit poor women. Something to remember the next time you read about people adopting babies, not from moms who cannot afford to care for an unexpected pregnancy, but designer babies with the proper genes paid for by the rich who are too old or too gay to bother to actually give a home to children who actually need families to care for them.

Most unwanted babies are aborted because abortion is easy and the social system, including parents, pressure the mom. But you know a lot of these babies are born and cared for thanks to the grandparents who are willing to care for both mom and the child. (Most adoptions of older kids are done by family or friends, often outside the social welfare system.)

Right now, the PP types are pushing the meme: I had to have an abortion as a teenager so I could go to college so it saved my life. 

Except that the moms of both President Obama and President Clinton, when faced with an unplanned pregnancy as teenagers, chose to have their babies because their parents helped them, and indeed, both moms went to finish college/nursing school.

But hey, babies are easy to place with parents. 

But other kids are removed from mom because their mom is too young, too poor, or just too drug addled to care for them, and there aren't family members to take them in and they do need homes.