Enshittification comes for Vegas. The money will still flow, you’ll just get less actual entertainment for it.
How rapidly that word has become meaningless. It just means “I want to bitch about something” now.
So, like, the word has suffered from enshittification?
No. Enshittification specifically refers to a business slowly squeezing everything out of its monopoly position and making life worse for everyone involved.
This here is just a failing business scaling (or shutting) down. Nothing more.
How is this not the Enshittification of gambling?
What used to be a destination with entertainment and competition for your attention has become online sports betting, gatcha games targeting minors, and online casinos. This used to be a destination with attractions for every type of person (circus circus Even, for the kids!), that supported hundreds of thousands of workers. Now it’s sweat shop programmers and overseas tech support, goodbye Vegas.
Again, because enshittification refers to the exploitative monopoly.
Vegas as a whole never had a monopoly, no individual casino in Vegas had a monopoly, and today’s online gambling has certainly some larger players, but none of them have the market power to squeeze both sides as much as Amazon does.
What you’re seeing is simply a shift within the market. Nothing else. Yes, people are being exploited, but not because of some monopoly that forces them to do so. There’s plenty of competition in the online gambling sector.
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