tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30130444.post2337351205655385782..comments2024-02-16T09:00:32.845-06:00Comments on FromDC2Iowa: A Profit DealUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30130444.post-55193648919890665082023-01-20T11:47:06.132-06:002023-01-20T11:47:06.132-06:00Thanks, Prophet. Good comment. Agree about 95%. I ...Thanks, Prophet. Good comment. Agree about 95%. I do think there's a distinction between a gambling activity involving skills and those involving little more than dumb luck. But the question is really more about the casino-encouraged addictions.<br /><br />Playing a slot machine is not my idea of a good time. There are other things I find more interesting. <br /><br />But if someone earning $75,000 a year enjoys playing the slots, doesn't do it more than once or twice a month if that, and holds themselves to losing on the activity no more than they'd spend taking someone to the movies, I don't see that as a serious societal problem. <br /><br />(Back in the day when folks put actual money in them, I described the process -- though I wasn't playing them myself -- as one of starting out with the coins you're going to play in your left pocket. Everything you win goes in your right pocket. When the left pocket is empty you go home. That way you can start with $100 and go home with $80 or more -- a $20 evening.)<br /><br />-- Nick Nickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08467682953748756539noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30130444.post-42928859142925070292023-01-04T15:12:09.363-06:002023-01-04T15:12:09.363-06:00Its one of the tricky parts of being in a society....Its one of the tricky parts of being in a society. Allowing freedom, while not allowing things which are truly damaging. As for gambling, I am of two minds. On one hand, I have been known to play poker (taught by my father, a WWII battleship Sailor/Iowa Engineer) and play it very well. And I have been known to go to horse racing tracks (using a system from my father, and knowledge from my wife with a degree in horse). But I would argue that both of those are much more of a "skill" based activity. On the other hand, living in Illinois, I am bombarded with Casino after Casino ad, all of which suggest that "everyone wins" and a lottery which gets lead coverage on what passes for the national news. And those are almost nothing by pure luck. And I guess I would differentiate the two.... <br /><br />As for legalization, its the prohibition problem. People were still gambling, but the funding was going to the bad guys. Prohibition created organized crime.<br /><br />As for the revenue, in Illinois they put in the lottery to "fund the schools", and then they proceeded to cut other funding for the schools. So it wasn't actually funding the schools...<br /><br />Yeah.. confused.... but way too much gambling in our society.prophet of doomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02985878502808744468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30130444.post-884706684894384592022-12-14T08:25:27.768-06:002022-12-14T08:25:27.768-06:00Iowa never should have gone down the road to legal...Iowa never should have gone down the road to legalizing gambling. Now, we are all addicted, whether we gamble or not. Our government depends on the revenue. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02066121515024827690noreply@blogger.com