Snapshot · The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway
A 30-point ideological gap between young men and women opened in both the US and Germany in just six years, with young women moving significantly left while young men largely stayed put.
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Scott Galloway uses a World Cup observation as a springboard: watching Japan versus the Netherlands, he was struck by how many ads — he estimated perhaps 50% — were for gambling. John Burn-Murdoch confirms this isn't paranoia: a body of US research shows that state-by-state legalisation of online sports betting led to real and significant financial harm concentrated among the lowest-income households, with some spending everything they had or going into debt. The UK has already begun restricting gambling advertising during domestic football broadcasts in response. More concerning to Burn-Murdoch is the global diffusion: the same pattern that emerged in the US from 2018 to 2019 is now appearing in large parts of the developing world, with gambling revenues representing a significant share of GDP in some African countries. Sport, once a communal experience, has become a delivery mechanism for a habit that destroys lives.
US studies show legalising online sports betting caused significant financial harm to low-income households. That wave is now reaching the developing world — in some African nations, gambling revenues are already a meaningful share of GDP. And every major sporting event is now a delivery vehicle for the habit.
Following the legalisation of online sports betting in the US after 2018, a similar wave has spread to developing countries, with gambling revenues now representing a significant proportion of GDP in some African nations.
The media narrative says young men are radicalising right. The data says the opposite: young men haven't moved. Young women have shifted dramatically to the left, and social media's algorithmic segregation — showing men and women entirely different content — is the most plausible explanation.
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