Listen, dumbass, the only person “earning money” in gambling is the house. 9 out of 10 times, the house always wins. They just let you win every once in a while to influence you into spending more and more money.
Also boo fucking hoo casino companies won’t be able to “earn money” by indirectly robbing and exploiting them anymore. Won’t anyone think of the casino companies? 😭😭😭
I just kept my mouth shut because I was the only commie in a server full of libs (they’re also very pro-ukrainian) and it was a server about a game, so politics aren’t the main focus; but this got brought up.
Like in total lib fashion, they just went with “we should just regulate/control it”.
Also, funny thing is, one of the libs tried to use the “B-but there are some people who wanna gamble with their friends privately! You can’t report them!” like it’s some kind of gotcha. Like, okay? Keep it in yourselves? Just don’t regret or blame anyone but yourself if the friendship ends because you lost a lot of money and they aren’t willing to be cooperative.
Shame I couldn’t wreck some libs without worrying about getting banned for “hostility” or whatever.
This means liberals are getting worse. A normal and acceptable liberal take on gambling used to be that it is just another tax on the desperate poor.
Liberals have gotten worse since quite few years already. The complete abandonement of the anti-war stances seen during the days of the Iraq war is one of the clearest examples of it.
Citations Needed episode on gambling is pretty good. Relevant especially if you live in the US or Australia. Not sure what the gambling scene is like in Western Europe though I know that sports bookies are ridiculously popular in the UK. Half the teams in the Premier League have online betting sites as their shirt sponsors.
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Citations Needed: Episode 63: Gambling and Neoliberal Rot - How Our Most Regressive Tax Flies Under the Radar
Episode webpage: https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/citationsneeded/CN63_20190123_gambling_balzarini_bernal.mp3
In Poland gambling is a problem, but not an epidemic. Of course as everywhere it’s a problem for the poor.
I had a psych professor in college who spent a good amount of time explaining all the tricks casinos (in person and online) use to keep people gambling and by the end I was utterly disgusted. A truly depraved industry.
I just kept my mouth shut because I was the only commie in a server full of libs (they’re also very pro-ukrainian) and it was a server about a game, so politics aren’t the main focus; but this got brought up.
Also this is why I refuse to join discord servers based around video games I like. I can already imagine my blood pressure rising from all the reactionary takes being vomited onto my screen by the average gamer.
