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Amidst news  of upheavals in the world, third, fourth and fifth waves of the pandemic, attacks, bribery scandals, political coups and more came stories that were too funny to be believed. 2021 was full of such accounts. Some made international headlines but other stories were low-key and received little notice.

The online gambling industry experienced significant growth over the course of the pandemic and is expected to reach a value of $102.9 billion by 2025 – a growth of almost 100% from its 2019 value of  $53.7 billion in 2019. The expansion started during the lockdowns of the early months of the pandemic when people were confined to their homes but it hasn’t slowed down, even when lockdowns were lifted and people started to circulate again. When the Vegas casinos reopened, the online casinos continued to out-perform them by a significant margin.

The world’s economy is changing rapidly. The COVID-19 pandemic has driven people indoors to work-at-home employment and other types of jobs where they are not dependent on an employer. Many jobs including repetitive, production-line manufacturing jobs and service jobs have been replaced by machines and artificial intelligence while the demand for other skills like robot trainers and big data analysts has grown.