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My mother, who was born in 1935, will not even buy a entry for a church fundraising raffle because that is "gambling" and she was raised by good Presbyterian te
by jononomo 2y ago
My mother, who was born in 1935, will not even buy a entry for a church fundraising raffle because that is "gambling" and she was raised by good Presbyterian teetotalers who absolutely did not approve of gambling in any form whatsoever.
A bit of that attitude leached off on me as well, but I have noticed that it is almost completely vanished from American culture.
Gambling used to be something that whole swaths of society looked upon with absolute contempt as nothing but an unmitigated vice.
- kjkjadksj 2y agoIn your moms day casinos were openly ran by organized crime. Today you can buy stock in draft kings and vegas is like disneyworld instead of a grimy ash tray. The world of gambling had changed and so has peoples opinions about it.
- jononomo 2y agoPeople looked down on gambling in the old days not because the casinos were run by organized crime but because there was an understanding that gambling was motivated by greed and often caused people to waste a lot of time and lose all their money and there was no upside to it for society.