It used to be that if you wanted to gamble, you had to go to a casino. Nowadays, gambling is everywhere. And I'm not just talking about betting apps, or the illegal gambling ads plastering social media! From the games you play to the sites where you shop every day; from investment advice to the social feeds you scroll through all day; from the political decisions of nations to people's choices to get a divorce—everything, and I mean absolutely EVERYTHING, has been turned into a gamble (or integrated with the logic of gambling). There's actually a name for this terrifying trend: "gamblification," or even worse, "hyper-gamblification"... And all of these apps are manipulating the most primitive, feel-good neural pathways in our brains to turn users into miniature gambling addicts. In fact, the number of "risk-for-reward opportunities" you encounter in a single day is now greater than what your grandparents faced in an entire lifetime! This is distorting our perception of risk a little more each day. And if we don't rein in this disastrous trend right away, a huge chunk of the human population is going to become gamblers—especially kids in countries facing economic crises like Turkey. Let's take a look.

00:00 Intro: Gambling is Everywhere Now!
01:40 How Did Humanity Discover Gambling?
03:24 The Lottery Industry in Turkey
03:44 The Rise of Gambling
06:00 Is Investing in the Stock Market Gambling?
08:10 Is Spending Time on Social Media Gambling?
11:24 The 50 Shades of Gambling: What Is and Isn't Gambling?
13:15 Day Trading: The Rise of Gambling in the Stock Market!
16:30 Why Does the House Always Win?
19:01 How the Pay-to-Win Model Turned Games into Gambling
20:38 They Even Have You Gambling While Shopping!
22:21 Is Crypto Gambling?
23:37 The Gamble of Everything: Will Messi Retire This Year?
25:17 Can Betting on Everything Steer Countries?
27:39 You Can Bet on How Long Press Secretaries Will Speak!
28:15 The Guy Who Predicted Maduro Would Be Ousted Won Half a Million Dollars!
28:59 Conclusion

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📽️ Videography & Post-Production: Çınar Ege Bakırcı

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