Sincere question: what is the alternative you have in mind? Banning gambling or deregulating it? One of the two great sins of the otherwise competent and progr

Sincere question: what is the alternative you have in mind? Banning gambling or deregulating it? One of the two great sins of the otherwise competent and progressive Blair/Brown New Labour government in the UK (1997-2010) was that they extensively deregulated and relaxed rules about gambling and simply taxed it. The worst excess of this -- thankfully now finally heavily regulated -- was the Fixed Odds Betting Terminal: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/19/a-stupid-gamble-on-evil-machines https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/19/a-stup... https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/27/high-street-betting-must-clean-up-its-act-fixed-odds-machines-victoria-coren-mitchell https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/27/high-s... An excellent pair of articles by the brilliant Victoria Coren-Mitchell, but read the first one especially. Deregulated gambling almost destroyed British society and created a new class of bankrupt addicts. And the internet and app stores are making it bad even as successive governments try to back away from the stream of revenue. I personally think the solution is a near total ban on everything except horse and greyhound racing (for now) and state-controlled lotteries, but we are so far away from that now.