The analogy implies sports gambling is just to get you started, but it’s as bad as anything. Actually, sport can largely stand on it own as entertainment, so sp

The analogy implies sports gambling is just to get you started, but it’s as bad as anything. Actually, sport can largely stand on it own as entertainment, so sports gambling is possibly more addictive than other forms. The more you gamble the more the gambling companies make, so that’s all they really care about. Branching out to other forms of gambling is just a way to scoop up more money. It’s been a huge societal mistake to make gambling widely legal. A lot of people just don’t have defenses against the addiction so it ruins a lot of lives. Meanwhile, it doesn’t add anything useful to the wider economy, so there’s no offsetting advantages like some other things. It’s just bad.