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The Secrets Of The Gambling Industry

Down The Rabbit Hole Of Modern Gambling

MediaVSReality
10 min readFeb 14, 2023

The Gambling Industry is filled with secrets.

Most of us take gambling as a simple fact of life. Casinos. Las Vegas. Sports betting. Slot machines. Roulette. Poker. These things have always been there.

But with the rise of new technologies like the internet and the smartphone, the gambling industry has changed.

The online gambling industry is now worth $565 billion worldwide. Who’s taking all this money? And how?

Who’s winning? And who’s losing? Well, those are easy questions to answer. The winners are casino owners, bookies and the owners of online gambling companies. As for the losers? Well, that’s almost everybody else.

Everyone knows that the house always wins, yet millions of people continue to hand their hard-earned money over to gambling companies. Gambling is the ultimate demonstration of human irrationality.

In this article I will explain:

  • Why Gambling Is Idiotic
  • How Online Gambling Has Changed Everything
  • Gambling Advertising
  • How Casinos and Slot Machines Are Designed
  • How Gambling Addiction Ruins Lives

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