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Sports Betting Is Just the New (less scary) Word for Gambling
Sports betting did not arrive to replace gambling. It arrived to replace the word.
One listener's text put a fine point on it: kids watching sports with their parents should be picking up lessons about teamwork, not learning what a parlay means. That text is the door into something much bigger: how gambling got rebranded, embedded, and normalised across everyday life without most people noticing.
There is a version of this that looks like fun: Pokemon card packs, arcade claw machines, fantasy pools, 50-50 draws at the rink. One video game's loot box system alone would cost a player nearly…
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