> TikTok is perhaps the most impressively addictive gambling app ever created.

> Geopolitics aside, I think everyone is kind of aware that gambling is a vice, and like it or not, this could just be the beginning of our society beginning to scrutinize these platforms.

Not really. TikTok isn't a gambling app.

The comparison here is a slot machine: you pay a a few to play, you pull the lever to play, you win a prize.

Here, the payment is your attention, you swipe to the next video to play the game, and the prize if you land on a good video is a small hit of dopamine.

Everyone's losing their collective mind about people watching videos on a platform not approved by our oligarchs, while there's an epidemic of people racking up gambling debt from the sudden prevalence of DraftKings and other mobile sports betting apps.

It's a variable reward dopamine hit generator.