“casino culture”

sports betting, shitcoins, meme stocks, vibe coding 100m in six hours, etc are all expressions of the same deep cultural rot. if youth don’t believe there’s legitimate ways to get rich through work, all of culture will become a rotten sports book for the soul

Will Manidis

this hit on a visceral level

https://x.com/WillManidis/status/1957784765844640032

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Hyperliquid

Are there not classes of new entrepreneurs building the platforms, apps, tokens etc to enable all the gambling? Don't ignore the effort bc the outcome is a little icky

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USD Coin

did i ignore the effort? or take time to read it and think about it and share someone's thoughts on it?

I meant the efforts of all the young people who ARE working hard to build real businesses, as a possible counterfactual to "youth culture rot"

They may not be yours or my favorite things (gambling etc) but the gen Zs are out there trying.

I can try to drink 60 beers a day, and do it successfully- doesn’t really make it a noble pursuit