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How Colleges and Sports-Betting Companies ‘Caesarized’ Campus Life
promoting gambling to 18 year olds is the latest way in which college sports are distorting the goal of college. at uc boulder, the school gets $30 every time someone downloads an app and makes a bet. the faculty managed to ensure that this money went to the right causes, though:
Think the problem is that 'social barriers' are now permeable enough that one can't accept something without, in effect, tacitly approving that it become ubiquitous.
You can pretty much ONLY have either a blanket ban, heavily enforced, or ads everywhere and run into it constantly on the streets.
I'm overstating it, but yeah, once something crosses the barrier into social 'acceptability' it tends to jump to straight-up social approval. I contemplate this a lot.
It can go the other way, see tobacco cigarettes.
Hm. Now I’ve got to give that some thought.
My knee jerk reaction is—surely it’s been this way since the 80s, at least. But pre color TV? Pre radio? Perhaps not.
I don’t think atomic communitarianism would be possible without modern+ technology, but that is also the most powerful universalizing force. One can more easily tolerate what one can’t see...
That's basically what I'm saying. Vegas used to be just some place you could go to gamble, then leave and come back home and never be faced with a slot machine or card table. Oh they'd try to convince you to come back, but "what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas" was actually a mostly true slogan.
So there was a solid separation between real life ('normal') and the fantasy life that Vegas promised.
Now, Vegas will pretty much come to you, where-ever you are.
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