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Monks in the Casino
Last discussed Jul 24, 2026
An essay by Derek Thompson about young men retreating from social participation and physical-world risk-taking while channeling risk appetite into online gambling and digital entertainment.
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"I remember at the end of that essay about Monks in the Casino, I become really initiated in this inversion of risk where the casino economy is turning our young people into monks. That is an unbelievably strange and fascinating phenomenon to me — ..."
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