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Imagine two siblings, one who can handle the freedom of choosing their own bedtime and one who cannot.

• gadders 1mo ago
  I don't see any country limitation in the original comment.
  • gdulli 1mo ago
    Likely an Amerocentric comment, yes, that assumes gambling can only be as destructive and predatory as it is in the US. I don't know anything about how it works in the UK but it's plausible to me that it's not as harmful a force there, as you say.
    • gadders 1mo ago
      If it had never happened, maybe sport would be some platonic ideal but if you look at the premier league, it seems to function OK as a sports league comparable to the NFL, despite people loading up on accas for fun.
    • SideburnsOfDoom 1mo ago
      gambling in the UK "as destructive and predatory as it is in the US" is not something that I have a measure for, and anyway it is the wrong measure. Even if that is true, UK gambling really is not a force for good, quite the opposite. And becoming worse as it moves from a betting shop on the high street into a betting app in a persons pocket.