@gikata One of your (many) amusing comments, based, I believe, on a ghostly econometric model, got me thinking about the nature of the spectral service economy, and how that is probably one of the more depressing views of the afterlife I’ve encountered.
Not that hell as punishment for mortal sins is a feel-good concept, but at least in this view, death represents some sort of transition. And even if ghosts continue to haunt mortal occupations, if you are a ghost doctor, a ghost lawyer, or a ghost teacher (I think all of these jobs have been covered in kdramas) you can look forward to a forever fate of rewarding work. But the idea that proletariat ghosts just resume a mundane work routine with a few alterations, their excess labor value continuing to be extracted by the ghostly bourgeoisie, makes Marx’s view of industrial capitalism look like heaven on earth.
And what about the ghostly middle class, determined to make sure that their ghostly children succeed in a brutally competitive afterlife economy? Do ghost Moms make their ghost teens take their university qualifying exams over and over again?
In other words, forget zombies. I’m saying this show has the potential to be one of the scariest horror dramas of the year!
Yoon Chan-young is a Delivery Man for Minah
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