The Battle for Las Vegas

- 3:17 "While mom and dad go upstairs to gamble in the casino, the kids go downstairs to the arcade" … to gamble in the casino. 😒 BrutalMoose's arcade videos make it abundantly clear there's no difference between casinos and arcades anymore, they're both just casinos for gambling now, one's just kid-friendly. 🤦
- 8:10 In Vegas, there's no difference between hotels and casinos. _Everything's_ a casino. You're mom's a casino.
- 8:38 These two companies bought all the casinos on the south end of The Strip, that is, the end closest to (read next to) McCarran airport; they gobble up all the tourists as soon as they land, blocking other companies.
- 8:48 Only the north of The Strip has other owners, but you _know_ these two companies push hard to force everybody to fly in at McCarran and prevent anybody from using North Vegas airport.
- 9:03 You think that's bad? GROCERY STORES are doing the same thing. For example, many grocery stores stopped accepting Air Miles and created their own points program so that instead of pooling your points across all stores, your points get fragmented and become useless (unless you ONLY shop at the stores owned by a single parent company). 😠
- 9:42 They named their company "I conquered"? 🙄 ("vici" = "weeky")
- 11:14 So Ceasar's tried to block a leveraged-buyout hostile-takeover by filing for bankruptcy? That seems clever, but it's not because that only works if they could prove they're actually bankrupt which no casino in Vegas could do, let alone a multi-billion dollar conglomerate. 🙄 Unless…
- 12:03 Yup, there it is. The typical corporate shenanigans of restructuring and such to make the "real" company be broke and in debt while all the vast riches are stored in a shell company. They couldn't seriously expect the courts to swallow that tripe? 🤨 - Let me guess, they sent the courts some free trip. 😒
- The USA says monopolies are bad but they LOVE monopolies. They say they're a "Christian nation", but the real religion they worship is capitalism. 😒