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Wonder if anything can be learned from the gambling industry. Gambling is a vice and can be a damaging addiction. Yet it’s legal in many places and while there
by cj 3y ago
Wonder if anything can be learned from the gambling industry.
Gambling is a vice and can be a damaging addiction. Yet it’s legal in many places and while there are stories of people gambling their life away, society doesn’t seem to see it as a major problem (and in fact is promoting its use via legalization of online gambling)
- cameldrv 3y agoPersonally I think that legalizing online gambling will prove to be a huge mistake. 30-40 years ago the national strategy was basically to confine it to Vegas and Atlantic City, and most people live far enough from those places that the inconvenience keeps the vulnerable from developing a full blown addiction. Putting this in every smartphone is going to lead to many destroyed lives. The one good thing that the gambling industry has is the ability to add yourself to a self exclusion list. Gambling and alcohol are different though from Fentanyl in that the large majority of people who gamble or drink alcohol don't become addicted. Fentanyl though is just such a strong stimulus that it exerts a nearly irresistible pull for too many people.