“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 think it’s deeper than that. 

I’ve been thinking about this a lot and I’m framing it as “addiction culture”

It goes way beyond people being addicted to gambling. People are “addicted” to so many things and consuming at an unprecedented level across all industries. Some examples food/clothing/travel - everyone has their vice and while some people are anti-gambling, you have a better chance of getting rich from being addicted to gambling then being addicted to instagram reels. 

As a society we definitely have an addictions to gambling, but I think addiction to consumption is the larger issue.

Wrote about exactly what you said 🙌🏻

something new. advising @midao. in the ocean if I’m not thinking about crypto. /eagles /betting

MetaDAO

Wrote about exactly what you said 🙌🏻

https://paragraph.com/@vinaydebrou/crypto-casino