I read this line back in 2017. The US sure seems to have worked out how to turn a significant portion of men into compulsive gamblers
"If you were the GDP, your ideal citizen would be a compulsive gambler with cancer who's going through a drawn-out divorce that he copes with by popping fistfuls of Prozac and going berserk on Black Friday."
-- Rutger Bregman, _Utopia For Realists_
Kim Scheinberg
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