U.S. gambling crisis feared as online betting rises
U.S. gambling crisis feared as online betting rises
Local officials see taxes on gambling as lucrative new revenue streams, but that ignores the real cost, opponents say
The ability to tax such new revenue streams is enticing for state and city officials dealing with post-pandemic economic upheaval, said Richard C. Auxier, principle policy associate with the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center, a think tank.
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I think one of the most glaring failures of the "if you don't like (thing) don't do (thing), simple" thought terminating cliches is gambling and the harm it does to people and everyone around those people.
Seriously.
Ok I didn't gamble, believe it or not that doesn't solve the problem of friends or family losing a bunch of money to their phone.
It's great advice if you start from the assumption "obviously i dont give a shit about anybody but me"
Also weird how that train of thought isn't applied to literally anything else.
I think it's consumerism, or "treat brain" as I call it locally. The old nazi death camp slogan "to each his/their own" is another version of that thought terminating cliche.
The insistence that people aren't connected, or that intersectional interactions don't happen somewhere between a treat's cultivation, manufacture, distribution, sale, and/or consumption has lead to a lot of easy cultural and ideological victories for capitalism lately. People can feel insulated and safe from feeling bad about their entertainment if they can contend that everything they spend money on is an enlightened informed democratic gesture that has no consequences outside of themselves.
Gambling is just the most glaring example. I have family members that pulled everyone around them into ruin over their addiction to it. But To Each Their Own(tm)!
or "treat brain" as I call it locally
You are not immune to propaganda.Haha I literally read this line and thought, "Jesus who do you think you are, UlyssesT??".
Anyways, welcome back brotherino.
I think “to each their own” in Rome and Germany was based on a concept of legal or karmic “justice”, ie everyone will get what they deserve. Obviously has fash implications when coming from those two particular states.
I’m not sure where the origin of its modern use came from, where it’s used more like “eh whatever floats your boat”
I’m not sure where the origin of its modern use came from, where it’s used more like “eh whatever floats your boat”
Yeah that is how it's used now, but I mentioned the death camp thing just to draw attention to it not being some grand uncontested ancient wisdom from some unspecified but surely credible source as some may believe it is.
Yep same with smoking cigarettes tbh. How many kids have to grow up with increased rates of cancer because their parents smoke in the house and cars and around them?
Millions. Millions of children with cancer and deformities for a drug that fucking sucks and doesn’t even do anything cool
Of all the treat defenders I've had to argue with over time, few are worse than the smoking apologists.
Offline, in person, being told that I can't "objectively prove" that any particular cigarette will cause lung cancer to a clearly addicted but in denial smoking enjoyer was always frustrating.
One such person that I knew for decades died of lung cancer. In his mid-late thirties. And months before that, his doctor told him he had the overall vitals of a eighty year old man and to please stop smoking. He laughed it off, right in front of me... with a horridly rattly cough.
