Desperation and Betrayal in Squid Game

I'm not sure this is even possible, but if you've somehow managed to

miss it, Squid Game is about a whole bunch of extremely desperate people.

Some are faced with crippling debts, while others are fresh out of prison,

terminally ill, or struggling to provide for their families. These people,

all 456 of them, are offered a life-changing amount of money

in exchange for playing a series of children's games. If they lose, so they're told,

they'll just be eliminated. Easy, right? Well,

what becomes graphically clear during the first game is that elimination means they