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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
I would also suggest capping the amount that people can bet per week or month to prevent too many weak human minds from ruining their lives and worse than that ruining the lives of their wives and kids.

>>chango+Fa
But his would those amounts be set? For some people $100/week would be a lot of money; for higher earners it'd be basically nothing.

>>dgolds+Za
that would be a good system, base it on income or wealth — you're limited to $100/week or whatever unless you can validate you can afford more

let's means test the rich for once

>>microm+Vc
100/week is 5200/year. That's probably the difference between making ends meet and being always in debt for a lot of households - the median us household income is about $50k and we're talking 10% of that. That's a huge difference for the median household, and likely pretty catastrophic for the bottom quartile.

Which arguably is as much a problem with income inequality as anything else, but the point is, gambling exacerbates existing social problems.