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increasingly designed to be more than that

Posted By: Al Mucous
Date: 20 Mar 12, 2:59 am

In Response To: Lotteries = tax on stupidity (nt) (LVBear584)

The lottery proponents -- corporations such as GTECH whose prosperity depends on ongoing expansion of state-sponsored gambling -- want us to continue thinking of lotteries as small affairs. "A dollar and a dream." All that stuff.

But the games are designed to function much more like other gambling experiences. It's not just low-stakes scratch tickets with terrible odds that you'd have to be a moron to buy. It's flat-out state-operated slot machines, like in Oregon, a state where severe compulsive gambling has been shown to be integral to lottery revenues.

It's $50 scratchers like they have in Texas. "Fifty dollars and a dream" is another order of gambling altogether. It's intended to get the sucker's heart pumping in the same way slots do.

If the casino business model is objectionable to us as advantage players, the lottery model should probably be more objectionable -- because our governments implicate all of us as co-owners of the enterprise. Foul beyond words, if you ask me.

Messages In This Thread

• Like a phoenix out of the ashes, an ex-lawyer haunts the casino industry -- J1971E -- 14 Mar 12, 9:38 pm
  • Nice work, thank you. (nt) -- LVBear584 -- 15 Mar 12, 8:49 am
  • very compelling spokesperson -- Al Mucous -- 16 Mar 12, 7:57 am
    • National Council on Problem Gambling -- 22 Dreams -- 18 Mar 12, 11:22 am
      • Lotteries = tax on stupidity (nt) -- LVBear584 -- 19 Mar 12, 10:54 am
        • increasingly designed to be more than that -- Al Mucous -- 20 Mar 12, 2:59 am
          • Kansas Star Casino -- Deep -- 22 Mar 12, 6:55 pm
            • think you are wrong on the surrender -- jpb -- 23 Mar 12, 2:09 pm
  • Thoughts... -- The DOC... -- 17 Mar 12, 4:49 am
    • Hidden messages from casinos? -- J1971E -- 17 Mar 12, 10:34 pm
      • Because if he is not an AP and they kep him gambling, they'll get it all ba -- The DOC... -- 18 Mar 12, 5:08 am
        • On one hand, -- revereman -- 18 Mar 12, 7:27 am
          • Are you saying he might be a shill? -- The DOC... -- 18 Mar 12, 7:41 am
            • Shill -- revereman -- 18 Mar 12, 7:55 am
            • pseudo shill? -- bigplayer -- 18 Mar 12, 9:03 pm
          • Why would he be an AP? -- Francis Salmon -- 19 Mar 12, 1:34 am
            • He won the $ playing BJ -- revereman -- 19 Mar 12, 6:18 am
          • Regarding him being an AP... -- The DOC... -- 19 Mar 12, 10:53 am
            • makes sense -- revereman -- 19 Mar 12, 12:40 pm
              • Scripted interview perhaps? (nt) -- The DOC... -- 19 Mar 12, 12:59 pm
          • AP -- mike moshopoulos -- 11 May 12, 8:37 am
            • Learning to be an AP -- Panama Rick -- 13 May 12, 8:27 am
              • Response to Panama Jack -- mike moshopoulos -- 13 May 12, 8:59 am
                • Don't play 6:5 -- Panama Rick -- 14 May 12, 6:29 am
            • Some Answers -- Franz Joseph -- 13 May 12, 9:22 am
        • Jennifer Dennison vs Don Johnson, another case of Déjà vu, sooner or later? -- J1971E -- 20 Mar 12, 12:52 pm
          • She looks like Stiffler's mom from the "American Pie" series... (nt) -- The DOC... -- 20 Mar 12, 12:56 pm
      • Marc Berman on the news again: Revel offers 8deckers & hits soft 17s! -- J1971E -- 20 Mar 12, 9:42 pm
        • I see a lot of electronic cardless blackjack games (nt) -- bigplayer -- 21 Mar 12, 3:07 pm
          • Cross -- J1971E -- 25 Mar 12, 1:17 pm
  • unrational -- Ivan Yerkanoff -- 25 Aug 12, 5:48 am
    • How can Advantage Players help problem gamblers? -- j1971e -- 15 Sep 12, 8:33 pm
      • Don't stop travellers -- Francis Salmon -- 16 Sep 12, 1:55 pm

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