I guess you never had to wait in line forever while someone checked 50 lottery tickets and bought 50 more.
I didn't say the lottery isn't addictive, just that sports betting is more addictive. That's just my assumption and to be fair I have nothing to back it up, it just seems obvious to me.
The waiting in line comment reminds me of a funny story - I used to play proline regularly back about 30 years ago when it was full of holes. There was one weekend where the lines they set were so bad, the smart money was all over it and Proline actually lost money that week for the first time ever. Usually they paid out I think it was about 60-65 cents for every dollar that was bet, you can imagine how huge the mistakes were that they made that weekend. It made the news, and they tightened up quite a bit after that (and I never figured out how they could make the lines on some games here and there so bad, it may have been intentional where the guys making the lines were secretly betting themselves, who knows). I was one of the winners that weekend, I think I bought a coupld hundred tickets and when the cashier at my corner store was putting through my tickets, there was some old lady waiting for me to be finished to buy a lottery ticket haha.
I will never forget, she said something to me like "that's too much. Buying a ticket now and then is OK, but that's too much". My response to her was "no, I should be buying more" LOL. And it was true too cause I knew what I was doing, and I only bet when proline made huge mistakes and the theoretical edges I had were so huge, I was thinking I probably should bet more. And I hit bigtime, I bet out about 700 bucks and got back about 7 grand, my biggest payday ever.
Every government is morally bankrupt. Government is a reflection of its society. In case anyone has noticed, society is going to shit at an alarming rate.
Hard to argue. I guess I would only say that there are different levels of immorality and our govt. isn't quite 100% bankrupt, not yet anyway.