Gambling is an evil business and everyone willingly involved in peddling it should be exiled from society one way or the other. FOBTs are especially streamlined

Gambling is an evil business and everyone willingly involved in peddling it should be exiled from society one way or the other. FOBTs are especially streamlined. Everyone in the business knows exactly what they are doing. That said, the same applies to lots of things: drugs almost literally, but also porn and porn-adjacent services are obvious brain-hacks, but also food, drink and even shopping are frequently structured in such a way to capture business through non-consensual manipulation of the human mind. None of it is new: people have been losing their shirts, homes, families and lives to most of the above since before money existed, but technology-wielding capital isn't exactly freeing us from it, but instead has optimised it. Sure, it's freedom, but it's freedom of both predator and prey.