> [!quote] > I know people keep waiting for all of the speculative excesses in the markets to go away but what if we’re just a gambling society now that it’s so easy to do on your phones? > > Parlays at DraftKings, options on Robinhood, memecoins on Coinbase — it’s all the same thing. > > The pandemic turned us all into a bunch of degenerate gamblers. > > -- Ben Carlson