Mr. Beast’s much-criticized blockbuster Amazon game show has evolved into a riveting demonstration of the ideological gulf between brutal Gen X pragmatism and fragile Gen Z idealism.

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This might sound like an oddly academic way of describing a jackpot, but only if you were unfamiliar with Mr. Beast’s defining quality: his desire to test exactly what people are willing to do ...