I was just watching the Rishi episode of Industry and thinking maybe, just maybe, gambling addiction is pretty bad and tacking a phone number read at 2x speed at the end of a sports betting ad isn’t a meaningful way of dealing with it.

LPpolgreen.bsky.socialSep 23, 2024 2:29pm

For all the moral panic about legalizing marijuana, it seems that the much less critiqued legalization of sports betting will end up wreaking a great deal of devastation. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Legalizing Sports Gambling Was a Huge Mistake

The evidence is convincing: The betting industry is ruining lives.