They have been hit with a slump because Vegas is too expensive for the average person now.
Everything is a fee, costs have soared.
They used to entice huge crowds with free buffets, free drinks, cheap entertainment, so you’d come and gamble and spend. Now they decided to focus on high rollers.
You don’t want to pay for a $70 room that has $220 in extra fees, as well as one of those fridge sensors that charge you $8 for a bottle of water if you sneeze on it?
You don’t want to pay $40 to have a Lyft take you two miles away to then spend $50 gambling at a dead casino while a waitress is demanding you order something or leave? So you order a $10 coke and she gets pissed you only gave her a $2 tip?
Furious that your $50 gamble disappeared in a few minutes, you don’t like paying $30 for a mediocre burger that’s half cooked at the casino restaurant? And when you call out the issue, a manager gives you a $10 coupon to gamble?
You don’t like spending $120 to watch a show that you literally cannot buy tickets at the door, but instead have to go online through their ticketmaster-like service that charges you four different “convenience” fees which then allow you to show your phone at the guy at the door to let you in? Then you see that you can also buy a Coors Light for $18 dollars?
You don’t like any of that?
Oh and if this is too specific, let’s say this is grounded in reality.
They used to entice huge crowds with free buffets, free drinks, cheap entertainment
This hasn’t been true in 25 years.
So they’ve been enshittifying for a long time then
Vegas should not exist.
Don’t worry, it is unlikely the US will pull out of this tailspan of shutting itself out from the rest of the world (in every way but military intervention ughh), and as a result Las Vegas is a dead city walking especially with the climate of the area functioning as a fast approaching cliff face for humans who want to keep living there despite nature giving every sign possible to them to get the hell out.
I am going to enjoy watching Las Vegas decay, shrivel up and die.
They did not have enough resources to sustain it when they built a ton of new houses back in the early 2000’s and they never fucking stopped building. Even after the crash and the majority of their market went underwater. They just kept building.
So many people will die, that’s nothing to celebrate
The city will die nothing can stop that, the people and communities don’t have to however, what determines that is a willingness to talk about this NOW not when the really bad months of hardly livable conditions get worse and worse.
Denial is a strong American pass time :(
There are already homeless encampments under bridges and in parking garages so dangerous even police are afraid to enter.
Police are generally terrified of everything they enter including their spouses, that is like saying “that hanging plastic sheet is so scary even horses get spooked by it!”.
It’s a product of the world’s most uptight puritan society. People walk around drunk pushing strollers while billboard trucks selling whores drive by, or head to the “entertainment” where everyone is guaranteed to lose.
They voted for this, hard to feels sorry for them
Exactly. The Oil Market casino screen game and stock market trading screen games and new sports betting systems are attracting plenty of gamblers. They voted for a casino owner entertainer to stimulate their minds.
Elect a clown, expect a circus.
This has been going on long before Trump and is a symptom of wider issues in the economy. Vegas resorts are charging an arm and a leg while nickle and dimeing tourists every step of the way. I saw a breakdown from Bright Sun Films where a weekend trip to the Paris Resort and Casino (not including flights) cost more than a weeklong trip to the actual Paris, flights included. The prices have soared to cater to the wealthy, while the quality has gone down. But I don’t get why someone who can afford a $50,000 Vegas trip would go ther instead of a luxury gambling location like Monaco or Macao.
I saw a breakdown from Bright Sun Films where a weekend trip to the Paris Resort and Casino (not including flights) cost more than a weeklong trip to the actual Paris, flights included.
This is year 2026, USA people want simulations, not reality. That’s why we have fantasy mythology storyteller Donald Trump as leader that entertains people into LOL LOL LMAO constantly. Trump comes from casino entertainment side, not concerned about profits nearly as much as capturing hearts and minds. (The cage fight at White House a couple months ago loss money, https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/ufc-white-house-event-lost-220452457.html but it sure created lots of hearts and minds to LOL LOL LOL at Trump the entertainer. Hate-watching cult fandoms.).
cost more than a weeklong trip to the actual Paris
Since USA is now all MAGA values, many people go into shock to visit the actual Paris, France. Reality is just not as entertaining as the anti-reality USA culture year 2026.
- “Paris syndrome (in Japanese: パリ症候群) is a sense of extreme disappointment exhibited by many individuals when visiting Paris, who feel that the city does not live up to their expectations. The condition is commonly viewed as a severe form of culture shock.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_syndrome
The Reddit simulation of anti-Trump and the Twitter pro-Trump worship is so much more thrilling to modern smartphone users. Any time day or night Truth Social stimulates the simulations into commenting activity. The biggest bamboozle in all human history, a total abandonment of real every hour of every day. Such a complex sophisticated mess!
- "Their behaviour is all simulatable. Another similar… and this going to sound cynical, but I don’t want it to. I mean, ah, Baudrillard has visited our country and when he went to Disneyland in Epcot Centre and these various parks, he said “Well this is much better than Europe. The food’s better than Europe. It’s a short walk between France and Germany-land” … “Ah, you know, you don’t have to… deal with all those nasty waiters, everyone is so polite”. The simulation has outrun the so-called reality. That concept in Baudrillard he calls the “hyperreal”. Hyperreality is more real than real. This is… it actually sounds… if some of this sounds like advertising slogans: good. Because in Baudrillard the heritage of philosophy and social theory has passed over into advertising and television. So if it sounds superficial: good, because the theory, the world that he looks at has become superficial and banal. If it sounds hokey like a salesman’s pitch: good. The world he describes is the world of Jurassic Park, not of Dante. " https://rickroderick.org/308-baudrillard-fatal-strategies-1993/
SEE ALSO: The last thing people want to face in USA is sober reality of Dr. Bandy X Lee’s 27 leaders since year 2017. The show must go on! Nobody wants to face up to Donald Trump mental disorders with smart leaders. Everyone is drunk on memes and drunk on Trump’s power tripping. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandy_X._Lee Technology fantasy on home media devices is Trumpism.
So many elect clowns, so many We The People are attracted to clowns. Constantly amused population who desires fantasy fiction storytelling leaders. Endless jokes and memes, LOLcow milking society.
“For all his perspicacity, George Orwell would have been stymied by this situation; there is nothing “Orwellian” about it. The President does not have the press under his thumb. The New York Times and The Washington Post are not Pravda; the Associated Press is not Tass. And there is no Newspeak here. Lies have not been defined as truth nor truth as lies. All that has happened is that the public has adjusted to incoherence and been amused into indifference. Which is why Aldous Huxley would not in the least be surprised by the story. Indeed, he prophesied its coming. He believed that it is far more likely that the Western democracies will dance and dream themselves into oblivion than march into it, single file and manacled. Huxley grasped, as Orwell did not, that it is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcoticized by technological diversions. Although Huxley did not specify that television would be our main line to the drug, he would have no difficulty accepting Robert MacNeil’s observation that “Television is the soma of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World.” Big Brother turns out to be Howdy Doody.” ― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, year 1985, page 111
- “Howdy Doody is an American children’s television program (with circus and Western frontier themes) that was created and produced by Victor F. Campbell and E. Roger Muir. It was broadcast on the NBC television network in the United States from December 27, 1947, until September 24, 1960.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howdy_Doody
Trump owned casinos and golf courses. Entertainment provider. Sports team owners entertainment cults. Worshipers of billionaires USA MAGA Trumpism. Now much of it is online sports gambling and political party gambling. Owned hearts and minds nation concerned about the bling bling gold decorations of Vegas and Trump buddies.
Never forget November 8, 2013 private jet flight. Phil Ruffin private jet… Treasure Island Hotel and Casino and Circus Circus Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. 50% of the Trump International Las Vegas. Never forget that November 8, 2013 private jet flight. Giving the A-OK to the kickoff of hot Ukraine war and status of the Internet Research Agency that was kicked off in early 2013. It isn’t just the Epstein Treasures Island private jet circles.
People eat this billionaire worship shit up.
This article reads like ai
