Well, what is “the biggest lie Las Vegas still gets away with”?
Las Vegas died when the MBA corporate types took over.
As I understand it, at onectime Clark County was one of the most desirable places to live in the country.
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Vegas became Disneyland: overpriced, scammy, and worse of all - very low quality food. They even took away the sexy casino girls and replaced them with fat blue haired trannies! Who wants to be around that? Plus the fights. Lots of ghetto fights last time I was there. Sad.
I didn’t watch the video but just read a few of the comments. Vegas is expensive and customers are stop going. Have seen this before.
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Way way back, I worked a lot playing music in “little Vegas” (Reno) and it was great. Top-shelf musical acts, clean, etc. I’m wondering if it has followed the Vegas path.
A. What’s the big lie of Vegas?
B. Why should i care?
Never had any interest in Vegas. Living in a desert? No, thanks, and I kind of enjoy some rain now and then and am not fond of tourist traps.
My son in law just left Vegas Wednesday from a convention / tournament he was part of putting on. (He’s a manager at P&G, his side gig is working for Pokemon setting up and judging tournaments all around the world, he flew directly to Brazil to set one up there where he’s at now)
My daughter told me they agreed he was allowed $300 to gamble while at the casinos. He turned that $300 into $4000 one night and then suddenly he was put on a bet restrictions, he was only allowed to place a bet amount that the casino would approve and allow.
Don’t get me wrong in that the boy is damn bright, but certainly not Rain Man bright. I couldn’t believe they would limit someone for such a trivial amount of winnings but they did.
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The video raises some solid points. During my last seven-week road trip across the USA, I drove straight through Vegas without stopping. It doesn’t have the same appeal anymore; it feels more like a money trap. People are catching on, and that’s why Vegas is struggling.
Never go full Disney.
Now though, Vegas seems to extract every nickel that it can though extra fees and high prices for everything, even simple bottles of water. This widely alienates visitors and locals. Even affluent and wealthy people do not like to be treated like pigeons being plucked.
Unfortunately, Vegas is stuck with its current overly exploitative business practices that are driving away visitors. The casino operators, restaurants, and other vendors are over leveraged and have destructively high rents and mortgages. A wave of consolidation, closings, write downs, and even bankruptcies is coming. The financial stress is already trickling down to employees and locals. Vegas may still be Sin City, but it is less fun than it was.
Like Sheldon Cooper said, Las Vegas is a place where people can go to forget their problems and replace them with new problems like alcoholism, a gambling addiction, and sexually transmitted diseases.
Vegas was where the mundane everyday things you were used to spending money on were cheap, which was enticing and made for a fun, carefree mood, while the Casinos charmingly seduced you with the glamour, fun, and wild things that made them all their money.
That was a vacation experience, you still spent all your vacation money but felt as though you had an adventurous good time and a cheap vacation where the spending was voluntary and you had done something totally different from what you spent your money on at home, and you also had the exciting roller coaster chance to make a big win and come home rich, or at least roughly even.
May still exist, but the quality and quantity of the product has reduced so much, it's not worth the price of admission.
For people with gambling interests, in most places now you can lose your life savings, on your phone, with your pants down, sitting on your OWN toilet.