“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

I mean, he played the game and had a big acq, he is effectively post-economic 

We need people saying this who aren’t looking down from a high horse to make it stick imo 

This whole cultural shift is a reflection of real suffering 

Different for me to hear this message come from someone who is even at least somewhat experiencing this suffering vs someone who won the game, you know 

Also too there is a place for some of these things as entertainment right, like despite my own Puritanism I see this 

Gambling, much like alcohol, is deeply Lindy 

so how do we allow for it while having it not be the be all end all

The Farcaster formerly known as Kchamp. Books, beats, bodybuilding, bright ideas and beautiful things.

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Coinbase Wrapped BTC

I feel like the more casino culture that comes in the more I see people posting hot takes of “do not fund public goods”. We’ve replaced supporting causes with a coin toss because the chance of someone caring is less than 50/50.