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Diet_Coke t1_isb8cj7 wrote

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The vast majority of a casino's revenue, somewhere between 80 and 90%, comes from slot machines that are designed from the ground up to abuse human psychology and create addiction.

We could legalize crack and put a taxable crack house in every neighborhood too. The business model is the same, go in with money and hope you leave with money - and yet, I don't see a lot of crack house advocates.

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JulianVanderbilt t1_isbpdbq wrote

I'm totally in favor of the legalization of cocaine and the taxation thereof. So is The Economist.

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Diet_Coke t1_isbq3mc wrote

Hey, at least you're consistent! In general I'm against criminalizing drugs (or gambling) but also against deliberately exploitative business models that vacuum up money from a community and concentrate it in the hands of a few people who don't live there. Things like casinos, crack houses, payday loans, megachurches, just don't have a place in a well-functioning society.

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JulianVanderbilt t1_isbqkrt wrote

I would just say the legalized cocaine != crack houses the same way the end of prohibition did not mean every single neighborhood has a house selling cheap bathtub gin with people passing out in the yard. Regulations can still exist (like we have with tobacco or alcohol), I'm not suggesting we let heroin users tie off on school playgrounds with no interventions like some libertarian fever dream.

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