Vegas is Struggling in 2025

[Dan Druff]

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Vegas native here - Las Vegas did this to themselves over the past 15 years or so. First went the free parking, then nickel-diming your spend through loyalty clubs that don't reward you for anything, nixing plans to place solar panels on parking garage roofs for increased sustainability, expanding to markets it has no business being in, and spending tons of capital to lobby Japan for legalized gaming when they should've reinvested it in existing infrastructure (looking at you Luxor/Excalibur - the meth labs of the Las Vegas Strip).

On top of that, Vegas has no clue what to do with the 20s-30s crowd who want fuck all to do with gambling (so these cavernous casinos stay mostly empty), demand staff loyalty while cutting jobs by the thousands (and stifling any talk of unionism), and giving golden parachutes to its inept C-Suite execs despite the garbage profitability numbers raked in under their watch.

The city was smart in pivoting to pro sports, but shouldered that burden on taxpayers.

Unless Vegas pulls its head out of the desert sand, it will be a ghost town by 2050.

This sounds like an idiotic libtard who just wants to complain.

LOL at whining about no solar panels on the parking garage roofs for "increased sustainability". Get the fuck outta here.

Reminds me when I read hotel reviews from people complaining about "lack of COVID safety". Again, I ignore everything else they have to say.

He/she happens to hit on a few decent points, but for the most part they're all over the place and don't know what they're talking about.

Druff, I am sorry, but this is exactly how you have turned purple and respond like a liberal here. You push back with emotional answers only, insult and cant validate anything. As usual, lets break it down...

- "This sounds like an idiotic libtard who just wants to complain."- How so, you just did the same thing. What makes them a liberal vs giving their own personal opinion or real-life experiences on the issue?

- "LOL at whining about no solar panels on the parking garage roofs for "increased sustainability". Get the fuck outta here."- I admit, when I scanned the post, I blew off this one part. But then I started to think about it- Why not use the sun for energy and/or atleast power the utilities in the casino parking garage? I know several fire stations where they put these panels in the back parking lot and in addition to capturing energy, it shades the employee's cars as well, win-win. Please explain exactly how is this whining or such a bad idea? I mean if the casino saves money on the power bill, isnt that easier on the jew-wallet?

- "Reminds me when I read hotel reviews from people complaining about "lack of COVID safety". I agree with you here, but that was blue Nevada and Clark County mandated, not hotel management and the author of this post did not include that, you did.

- "He/she happens to hit on a few decent points, but for the most part they're all over the place and don't know what they're talking about." Ok, so now you agree with a few points, but how are they all over the place and dont know what they are talking about- can you cite any specific point?

I would just hope you can expand on your opinion and get away from the old liberal trick of- "because I say so".

How was I responding like a liberal? I was doing the opposite. I was saying I dismissed this person as soon as I noticed them bitching about lack of sustainability. While solar panels on parking structures wouldn't be a bad idea, no tourist should care if they're doing this or not, unless they are a left wing ecofanatic.

Also LOL @ "stifling any talk of unionism". There is a HUGE union which covers most hotel workers -- the culinary union. This union is so gigantic and all-encompassing that it holds the city hostage every few years until it gets what it wants. This idiot wants MORE unions? Yeah, that'll bring prices down.

In short, this person has no clue, and is infusing politics (not even your politics) into their opinions.