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☑️4 Steps to Bankrupt Young Men 📉
It’s hard to criticize Sports Gambling in Sports Media. The gambling itself is not the issue, but putting a frictionless mobile version into the hands of young people who don’t have a prefrontal cortex is problematic at best.
I’m glad there are ppl who are speaking up. An important doc is coming out this week:
“Out of Bounds: The Sports Betting Boom” premieres tonight, Thursday, January 29 at 9P ET on VICE TV. @vicesports
It’s worth checking out!
Transcript
If I wanted to bankrupt a whole generation of young men, here's exactly what I'd do. One, I would legalize online sports gambling and remove any friction point in the process. You could do this through the phone in your pocket at any time, day or night, twenty four seven. Two, I would make sports gambling absolutely unavoidable. I would take over all of sports media, every single sports league possible, and then I would go to the media networks that broadcast those. Then I would take the athletes that play in those leagues, and then I would go to all of sports media that they consume, their favorite podcast, their favorite creators, and I would have them promote this online sports gambling ad nauseam. Third, I would target them at their most vulnerable moments. For the few men who are still going to college, I would target them. Then I would try to reach these young men before they ever have a chance of developing a prefrontal cortex. I'd exploit the psychology and I would rig the game. If you win, we would kick you off the platform. If you lose though, we're gonna give you VIP access. That's right. You get front row tickets, you get suites, and you get all kinds of gifts and perks for losing money regularly with us. Lastly, I would exploit that part of their brain by the weapon of mass distraction in their pocket where they would have phones that give them push notifications anytime of day. I would highly encourage those parlays, which are stacking bets one on top of each other, which are extremely risky, but promise great payouts. This is a thought experiment. This is actually happening right now in front of our eyes. It matters for our young men, and it is affecting everyone from pro coaches to pro athletes to college athletes. It's really hard to talk about in sports media because everyone's incentivized not to do it. But Vice Sports has done rank incredible documentary called the Sports Betting Boom. It premieres tonight at 9PM on Vice TV. I would highly recommend you check it out. It's getting more rare to find people who are speaking up about this, but I'm grateful that somebody is.
