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MrBeast’s “$456,000 Squid Game in Real Life!”

In 1946, Jorge Luis Borges wrote an allegorical short story about cartographers who had become so advanced they were able to create an exact map of another city, precise in size and territorial accuracy, basically creating a replica of the…