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Why stop at online. The amount of pensioners and vulnerable people wasting their money on horses and fruit machines is pretty depressing.
On the one hand, I strongly believe in personal freedom (as long as you're only harming yourself) and if people want to spend their money, that way it should be up to them. On the other hand, some people are vulnerable and need to be protected from themselves.
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
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.
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.
How incredibly entitled can you be?