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[–] daannii@lemmy.world 9 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

House always wins. It's literally just a way to steal people's money.

And in the city I live now, they passed a law for those stupid slot machines like 10 years ago.

Now they are everywhere.

You know who sits at slot machines?

Old people. Retired people.
People living off social security.

It's literally a way to steal money from people who need it most. And specifically, it was tax payers money.

So whenever I hear ,"but it creates revenue" I think. "Yeah by stealing it from the state and our seniors. Wtf. That's not real revenue."

And this whole idea of autonomy. Like people have to choose for themselves if they want to gamble.

We all know it's addictive. And it's designed to trick and manipulate people.

There is less autonomy there than you think.

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

I dunno, I find it hard to respect laws intending to protect people from their own choices, especially when the majority of people can enjoy the thing (or just ignore it on their own) without any problems.

Try to idiot-proof the world and the world just comes up with a better idiot.