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But they’re spending their kids’ inheritance. I can see the innocence in putting a few quid against your mates betting on horses. But capitalised rigged gambling is just immoral

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This. When only one side of the bet can lose. It is not gambling but rigged capitalism.

When an industry manages to remove all the risk from investment. While offering little to the society they inhabit.

High taxation to help return their cost to society. Seems a bare minimum charge.

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At least with the likes of a lottery the odds are obvious and “only one person winning each month”, etc. A fruit machine programmed to only win once a month isn’t.

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But they’re spending their kids’ inheritance

How incredibly entitled can you be?

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I think it’s a fair point just not well made.

To paraphrase my first reply, to each their own, if someone truly enjoys gambling, they’ll find a way to do it, legal or not.

However, there is a lot of good that money could be doing, whether it is used to help your kids or anything else like that, rather than it being hoovered up by fat cat CEOs and people that hold shares in gambling businesses.

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