• UlyssesT
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    22 days ago

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    • TheLepidopterists [he/him]
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      2 months ago

      What's absurd to me is that it's not like you couldn't bet on sports before, you just had to have some buddies at work, or a sibling who or something who was interested.

      That doesn't allow for the quantity of gambling necessary to immiserate people en masse though.

      • Adkml [he/him]
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        2 months ago

        Also all that income was untaxed now they cut in the government it's fully legalized.

        • TheLepidopterists [he/him]
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          2 months ago

          Which also contributed to it draining income from the community.

          If you and your brother in law trade the same 20 bucks back and forth over a few years of 2 person bets then all you did was make the game more exciting. If you did the same but gave a quarter of that to the US government to buy bombs and tanks for the local police department then you could be hundreds or thousands in the hole each after a few years.