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>>jimbob+(OP)
Gambling is a vice, and we should allow it but make it expensive and somewhat stigmatized.

At the very least, ads should be banned or require nasty images like tobacco products.

>>datadr+3a
It’s already stigmatised - have you seen the quintessential meth addict/crack whores that hang around gambling/gaming joints?

There has to be a lower class. Not all but most of the people who inhabit it are just where they belong. Interventionist states with paternal social policies can’t magically raise the IQs of the dumbest 20% of their populations by 50 points, alas.

No respectable person goes to a casino except as a gag to throw away expendable income. Some labourer spending 80% of his wages at Ladbroke’s is a symptom of his stupidity, not the cause of it.

>>avazhi+QI1
I see so many younger cousins/niblings casually gambling on their phones all the time. And these are not poor kids/men, easily top 20% in the US.

The sheer amount of advertising for gambling and revenue growth for these companies indicates there is little stigma.