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>>jimbob+(OP)
Almost everyone involved knew it was a mistake, but was captured (directly or indirectly) by the profits to be made.

>>pinko+ja
Also it's hard to be against gambling if your state runs a lotto, which is gambling.

>>Clubbe+Tb
> Also it's hard to be against gambling if your state runs a lotto, which is gambling.

How so? Different kinds of gambling have different characteristics that could make them more or less prone to problematic behavior.

With the lottery, it's so boring and there's such a time lag between action and response that intuitively it seems like it would be harder to get addicted or harder for addiction to become really problematic.

>>tivert+Md
>With the lottery, it's so boring and there's such a time lag between action and response that intuitively it seems like it would be harder to get addicted

Addictions don't reason. Win $10 and some people are hooked for life.

> or harder for addiction to become really problematic.

Example: a school teacher spending $200 a week on lotto tickets, not life devastating, but do we really want this in our society? This happens a lot.

Lottos just trick the people with less money into paying more taxes on the hopes of "winning it big!" It's essentially a hope tax for the lower and middle class. I can think of better ways of collecting taxes.

>>Clubbe+Fr
>> With the lottery, it's so boring and there's such a time lag between action and response that intuitively it seems like it would be harder to get addicted

> Addictions don't reason.

That argument was specifically based on how gambling feels and not reasoning.

> Win $10 and some people are hooked for life.

That sucks, but ease of addiction is a spectrum.