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state run gaming, limit the bets people make, allow them to "win back" their UBI everyone's a winner, baby!

• Tenoke 5y ago
  Sadly, state run gambling aka national lotteries typically offer you much worse returns than anything in the casino.
  • Jensson 5y ago
    That is because high return games trigger gambling addiction. It is even illegal to run lotteries with too high returns in many places for this reason, casinos doesn't have high returns to be nice to you but because it ultimately nets them a lot more money. With low return games it is really easy to see that it is a bad investment, while the higher the returns the easier it is for people to think they can make money gambling. You might say those are dumb, but the effect of making high pay-out gambling legal is that you ruin their lives, and in my opinion their lives are worth more than your fun. This is a case of the trolley problem. You think it is fine to ruin their lives since you didn't do it directly, but since you could save their lives by banning it the effect is that you are ruining their lives by keeping this legal.
    • Tenoke 5y ago
      >casinos doesn't have high returns to be nice to you but because it ultimately nets them a lot more money. As far as I can see casinos do have jackpots in the millions for slot machines, and those are legal. Overall those slot machines also offer you better odds per bet than lotteries. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/7-biggest-vegas-payouts-time-090012903.html https://finance.yahoo.com/news/7-biggest-vegas-payouts-time-...
  • kritiko 5y ago
    In this scenario, I’m proposing that you rig it. Hire some of the best loot box designers from the gaming industry to replicate their addictive mechanics, but for the welfare state. You’d think the state would embrace virtual scratch offs to better understand the amount of addiction they’re causing…