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I empathize with your frustration toward the gambling industry. However, It's not only about the slot machines. You can find the underlying model in many other

I empathize with your frustration toward the gambling industry. However, It's not only about the slot machines. You can find the underlying model in many other products, like freemium apps. There's much more subtlety than closing down casinos. Illegal businesses – which don't employ workers nor pay taxes – would likely exploit the new prohibition and its victims. > "Sorry, you can only play games for fun, not money." Addiction-prone individuals will still be unable to function normally in day-to-day life. That's why I believe that treatment, prevention and awareness trumps other obvious proposals.

wpietri 11y ago
> Addiction-prone individuals will still be unable to function normally in day-to-day life. [citation needed] > That's why I believe that treatment, prevention and awareness trumps other obvious proposals. That's a couple of different kinds of false dichotomy. Nobody is saying one can't have treatment, prevention, and awareness while also, say, placing such heavy regulation on gambling that the amount of addiction is minimized. As a comparable model, look at cigarettes.