Las Vegas is like if enshittification were a city. The whole economic model was to make everything cheap and easy so that people would show up to gamble. Subsidize the flights, the hotels, the food, the entertainment, etc. and just make it up on the other side with people throwing money away on gambling. It worked for decades. Then a bunch of morons went “but what if we also tried to make money on all that stuff, too?” so they started getting rid of the deals and the freebies, they jacked up prices and found ways to upsell, they lowered the already-middling quality on everything, and they presumably made even more money for a few years.
But now there’s no reason to go there in the first place. Almost anything you’d want to do in Las Vegas you could do better and for less money somewhere else. Of course young people aren’t going to show up.
i’ve worked at a few casinos in vegas and my older coworkers would tell me how much better the mob took care of the employees compared to the modern corporations that run everything now. free steak dinners after your shift, bonuses on good nights, good pay, light work. sounded nice.
the only bonus I ever got from a casino was when they lost a class action suit about stealing wages.
I think of the mob vs venture capital sorta like how I think of national bourgeois vs international bourgeois. They were local to Vegas and so had incentive to make sure it kept running smoothly, venture capital that runs it now only cares that money comes in, workers be damned.
Not to mention, NOBODY HAS MONEY TO BURN AT A CASINO
I know so many tech bros that go to atlantic city and burn ridiculous amounts of money every couple months.
Also casinos are pretty defunct now. Sports betting is all the craze. If I wanted to spin some slots I could just go to the gas station where a machine is set up.
Every time I go somewhere with legal gambling it blows my mind how many people gamble in the weirdest places. When I was in Illinois people were gambling at the local breakfast spot, like wtf? Here there’s only one city you can do it in and it’s hours away from most of civilization, so if people even bother going it’s typically once or twice a year at most.
The irony is that gaming revenues are strong, but in the local casinos. It’s the strip that’s suffering. People have money to go to a casino, but not for overpriced, mediocre tourism.
Plus all the compulsive gamblers can do it anytime anywhere on their phones
Way more sanitary and private to boot.
Big Casino needs to pay writers to suddenly feel inspired to write “hey let’s all go to Las Vegas!” episodes ASAP.
young sheldon episode where he makes millions playing poker in vegas
The younger generation just gambles on their phones now. DraftKings and FanDuel have created a whole new generation of gambling addicts, but they’ve lost too much of their money to go to Vegas even if they wanted to
I work with guys who talk to each other about their sports betting while the machines run, they believe they’re making money doing it. It’s pretty depressing to hear.
I would be so thankful if Vegas were able to squash the online gambling thing so it’s like the old days.
there’s only so much they can do about russian mafia types operating out of cyprus
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wait, they made a city from fallout new vegas into a real thing?
Nah, that’s the old Vegas. The new one is hard to get into, so you might not know about it:
It’s considerably more disgusting than in the game too.
I’m kind of surprised they didn’t say “Millennials are killing Vegas”.
Millennial got too old.
Now it’s time for gen z/alpha
Gen Z Kills Vegas would be a great name for a movie. What’s the plot? I have no idea. But it’s still a great name for a movie though.
Sounds like a title for a Columbo episode
As is tradition.
soon the only tourists will be fans of fallout: new vegas. because of woke
Never setting foot in the city itself but spending weeks circling it looking for Dinky the Dinosaur
It’s probably gambling apps doing that actually, there’s so fucking many of them
Let’s also not forget that Canadians
have by and large stopped travelling to The Burger Reich, I’m sure that hasn’t been helping either.Every photo of Vegas scream to me: “That’s aesthetic that an American boomer loves”, I don’t know how that attract the younger generation, even excluding all the monetary problems.
Maybe if they put more gacha waifus or polyamory polycules on it and make a really fast train there I can be fucked to visit.
there isn’t even a godamm train from the airport (it almost couldn’t be closer) to the strip or transit on the strip itself. in a city where everyone is drunk there’s no way to get around but in a car, also it fucking sucks to drive there.
Literally, make an animecon in there and profits are gonna boom, maybe do a genshin collab or smt.
Give me enough money that I can afford to gamble it away :shrug-outta-hecks:
Real players gamble money they don’t have
Real players gamble their parents money for assets of zero resale value
Real players gamble their shitcoins on non-fungible assets
Yeah, Cardfight Vanguard cards.
Don’t forget getting married at the Taco Bell church.
Punk kids will never know the joy of being an obese elderly mobster who flies out to meet his goomah in vegas and drop peyote and muse about all the people he’s killed.
Whoa whoa whoa, Tony was meeting Christopher’s goomah to tell her he was dead after he killed him (obviously not telling her that last part)
He did have sex with her but that wasn’t necessarily gonna be anything more than a one time thing
It’s been ages since I’ve seen the show so I forgot the specifics, thanks for CORRECTING THE RECORD.
Anytime comrade
They turned stocks into a casino and then added shit like crypto, tech startups, and sports betting. All on your phone.
I need a Kelly comic where we get to see Meyer Lansky, Lucky Luciano, and Joe Trafficante crying from heaven. Put-upon casino-goers looking forlornly at the moths flying out of their wallet, unable to cover his exorbitant bar tab, while “Aspiring Content Creators” are driving past the casinos recording tiktoks with their dang cell phones
driving past the casinos recording tiktoks with their dang cell phones
*latest fad
Young people have their gacha waifus to scratch that gambling itch
Not even that, western gaming already embraced lootboxes years ago, e.g FIFA is a monstrosity well before even Genshin became a huge hit during COVID.
Bunch of 1950s-style mobsters seated around a table in a dark room, all smoking cigars, arguing over how to get into the Uma Musume racket.
This sounds like something they would make. The setting says there are no horse bets, which is why the horses earn money with the singing and the dancing…
I say that, where there is a competition, there is someone betting on it. Criminal horse girl mobsters pls.
There’s a Sopranos episode where Chris off-handedly mentions wanting to steal trucks filled Pokemon cards or something. I think they end up getting a truck filled with Centrum Multivitamins.
