Gamblers trying to win a bet on Polymarket are vowing to kill me if I don’t rewrite an Iran missile story

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Gamblers trying to win a bet on Polymarket are vowing to kill me if I don’t rewrite an Iran missile story - lemy.lol

Lemmy

Gambling needs to simply be made illegal

I don’t care what your arguments are gambling needs to be made illegal

Prohibition on vices never works, it just sends the money to criminal organizations that kill people instead of capitalist companies that kill less people.

The solution is to have it be state run, remove the profit motive, and send any money gained from it to education and social services.

Oohh yeah, let the state run the “gambling on genocide”, that sounds awesome!

Not saying it’s the best situation but if the choice is between the mob running it, capitalist corporations running it, and the state running it, I’d pick the state.

The state has an incentive to decrease problem gambling. Even if you ignore any democratic pressures from the people who don’t like gambling being pushed, the state also has to bear the cost of addicts with social services so it’s monetarily incentivized to reduce problem gambling.