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Gamblers trying to win a bet on Polymarket are vowing to kill me if I don’t rewrite an Iran missile story
(www.timesofisrael.com)
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Prohibition on vices never works, it just sends the money to criminal organizations that kill people instead of capitalist companies that kill less people.
The solution is to have it be state run, remove the profit motive, and send any money gained from it to education and social services.
I don't care about the gambling, my issue is with the advertising. They are enticing people, mostly young men, with visions of excitement and LOTS of money. They don't show any ads of a guy losing the rent money, and having to break the news to his wife.
I don't mind vices being legal, but I strongly object to them being marketed. Cigarettes are banned in most media, and liquor is heavily controlled. I wouldn't mind if all marketing for all vices were prohibited.
Oohh yeah, let the state run the "gambling on genocide" and "gambling on child murder", that sounds awesome!
Not saying it's the best situation but if the choice is between the mob running it, capitalist corporations running it, and the state running it, I'd pick the state.
The state has an incentive to decrease problem gambling. Even if you ignore any democratic pressures from the people who don't like gambling being pushed, the state also has to bear the cost of addicts with social services so it's monetarily incentivized to reduce problem gambling.
Removing the profit motive of gambling is exactly prohibition, what????
Remove the profit motive from "the house" side. The house is taking a cut of every bet as profit, which encourages them to advertise and increase their market and market share to get more money. Which in the end means them trying to push gambling on those with a problem because they make them the most money.
If it's run by the state it's not beholden to share holders who want as much profit as possible, social costs be damned. The state is at least nominally beholden to the people in a democratic system and the people generally don't want gambling advertising to be pushed on gambling addicts.
Gambling addiction has one of the highest suicide rates out of any addiction, so I'm pretty sure the capitalist gambling companies right now cause more death than illegal organizations could.
No it can work just fine if the state doesn’t become captured by those criminal profit seeking elements and we properly provide for people along the way
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