Why ban gambling when you can just create conditions where its not possible to ruin your life by gambling. Like can't gamble away your house if its community managed. Cannot impoverish 'your' kids if they're not dependent on a nuclear family.
What the fuck would people be gambling in this hypothetical society? M&M? I don't think the government current breaks up retirees player poker for pennies in their spare time.
Your close to understanding then. Gambling exists because of capitalism just as Engle's outlined about prostitution. You can't ban capitalism you can't ban gambling you can't ban prostitution you can only create the conditions in which it doesn't exist.
Well that's not totally true you can ban these things but only in the contest of expanding enforcement mechanisms.
Why ban gambling when you can just create conditions where its not possible to ruin your life by gambling. Like can't gamble away your house if its community managed. Cannot impoverish 'your' kids if they're not dependent on a nuclear family.
What the fuck would people be gambling in this hypothetical society? M&M? I don't think the government current breaks up retirees player poker for pennies in their spare time.
Your close to understanding then. Gambling exists because of capitalism just as Engle's outlined about prostitution. You can't ban capitalism you can't ban gambling you can't ban prostitution you can only create the conditions in which it doesn't exist.
Well that's not totally true you can ban these things but only in the contest of expanding enforcement mechanisms.
No shit I want a world in which those conditions don't exist, why do you think I'm on this website?
OK well you can't ban gambling without pressing the buton either (see current conditions) Banning things is a ham fishted non solution.
Meeting and guaranteeing peoples basic necessities would render this conversation moot and is easily achievable
Basic necessities include protection from gambling