DraftKings ads on busses, billboards, and podcasts should be just as unacceptable as Marlboro ads.
Not to mention the fact that they're now outright _creating_ gambling addicts that wouldn't have been addicts before the legalization of online betting.
Eh. This is almost certainly overblown. The thing about being poor is that you don't have much to lose, and the distribution has a long upwards tail. Just like Vegas, it's the "whales" that keep the lights on.
You'd have a stronger inequality argument on things like alcohol or marijuana legalization where the majority of revenue does correlate with lower incomes.
This is a good point. You can see this in the design of casinos — very little square footage spent on low-cost gambling like slot machines and the vast majority of space spent on high-stakes poker and craps tables.
But places like Wynn and Caesars don't put all of their marketing efforts behind promos to get people into their building who only have $50 to their name.
Exactly! Caesar’s current $10 no-deposit bonus is meant to attract whales, obviously
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