Betting was confined to the race track or the football stadium. Now the bookee is in your pocket 24/7. The odds are never in your favor.
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Flax_vert@feddit.uk 3 weeks agoQuite frankly, gambling should be culled kind of like tobacco (although maybe not that harsh). I think they should ban large gambling companies from operating here. Betting shops are fine if they’re independently owned
tazeycrazy@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
Yeah. I think online gambling should be banned. Just keep the bookies open so you don’t get a prohibition problem
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Why?
Gambling is always bad as it’s just making people think they can win where in realit the vast majority will lose. It’s bait and switch, and having it operating “independently” (from what?) won’t change that.
Gambling is fraud
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
If you ban it completely, you’re just forcing it underground. My mentality is to make it as least corrupt as possible, but still legal enough to deter underground gambling