You are a South Korean destroyed by heavy debt and poverty. Loan sharks regularly threaten you with death and injury. Your family life is a mess and you have no economic prospects.
One day, you and some 400 others in a similar situation as yourself are abducted by an organization of masked gun men to participate in series of games (the Squid Games).
6 consecutive games will be played in which players will be eliminated. If you complete the 6th game you win hundreds of millions of dollars.
In the first game (which is a version of Red Light, Green Light in which automated guns shoot down half the players to death when they fail to “stop” in time as they try to make it past a line), half the players are lethally eliminated.
The rest of the games will also presumably be lethal perversions/iterations of children’s games where people will die.
The game hosts then give the remaining players a vote. The majority will prevail. The voting options:
1. Continue the games. More people will die through the rounds, if you are among those who win the final game you become rich
2. End the games. Everyone goes back to their lives as poverty-stricken debtors in South Korea.
What do you vote for?
One person says “We have no chance out there. At least in here, we do. It’s more insane out there.”
Is he telling the truth or exaggerating?