Goes to show people don’t actually think rationally about things, they just view something as seedy or untoward and therefore should be illegal. But only a LITTLE seedy so should be tolerated on the black market. No actual rational thought, just vibes.
I think the point is that it’s not just ‘vibes’.
It’s usability professionals and market researchers and ad agencies and leagues and teams maximizing the dopamine kick of placing a bet so that customers maximize losses.
When you went to Vegas to lose, or when you worried about whether Big Johnny’s toughs were gonna break your freakin’ legs, there was friction in the process that made it tough to lose a lot. That friction is being reduced every day.
It’s okay if you simply believe that an increase in bankruptcies and domestic violence is fine, whatever, screw the weak-willed and those that live with them, but the real actual data that the article reports on shows that it’s not ‘vibes’.
That's Progressivism in a nutshell: good vibes and good intentions, followed by craptastic ineffectual policy that just makes things worse.
The point is that there is no policy right now. The policy was “take off the guardrails.” It’s reasonable, less then a decade in, to determine whether policy is necessary.
