It’s not analyzed with the same rigor of BNW, that’s true.

It’s mostly seen as a useful metaphor for the way the poor and working classes fight amongst one another while being exploited by the wealthy.

It’s not very deep, but it’s not entirely inaccurate either. Like a useful shorthand.

I understand, thankfully for you Germany has a much softer social safety net.

We don’t have paid family leave or strong unions or universal healthcare; it literally is more “Hunger Games-y” here. At least for wide swaths of the population. So maybe it’s a more pressing issue for us?

And I know BNW is an important book, it was required reading at my high school.

Yeah, but you said it’s not discussed as much. It’s discussed all the time, on a regular basis.

No one said it’s superior to BNW, but it’s definitely part of the zeitgeist.

I’ve never read the Hunger Games but people use it to describe our current class struggles all the time. It’s a thing.