Jordan Harbinger

It's kind of a convenient way to ignore incentives, design, and policy failures that quietly do real damage.

We've seen this movie before with cigarettes, opioids, payday loans.

When harm is baked into the business model, the fallout isn't accidental, it's structural.

None of this requires panic or prohibition, but it does require honesty.

Gambling is, it's not just entertainment.

Once it's always on, always personalized, and always one tap away from your bank account.

At that point, it's a public health issue whether we like to admit it or not.

Ignoring a problem doesn't make it go away.

It just guarantees that someone else pays for it later.

Thanks to Nick Pell for helping us call the bluff on online gambling.

And thanks to all of you for listening.

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