“The evidence is overwhelming that expanded sports betting has led to increased harm on a national scale,”
“In five, ten years, we’re going to look back and be, like, Why the fuck is LeBron James doing these ads?”
“It used to be man versus vice. Now it’s man versus vice combined with a billion-dollar tech company. That’s not a fair fight.” Multiple studies have shown that casinos make most of their money from a small percentage of users. I recently obtained data collected by FanDuel’s V.I.P. program during the time that Jontay played. V.I.P. players made up less than half a per cent of the company’s monthly users, but were responsible for nearly six hundred million dollars in revenue. FanDuel reportedly had two billion dollars in revenue that year.
Nick Berardini on sports gambling addiction, New Yorker.
It takes art to get art.
Falling Heists, Rising Grift: Filming Capital in the Already Long Twenty-First Century, Anna Kornbluh
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