[quote=The-Shoveler]investing is gambling, farming is gambling, buying a house is gambling.

Life is a gamble.

Go ahead throw the first stone.[/quote]

Those arent games of chance.

Roulette has zero social utility.

Investing, homes and farming do.

Just because something is risky does not mean it is gambling.

That is why gambling houses are generally illegal and should be morally repugnant everywhere. The lottery should not exist. Im not sure the exact date gambling became acceptable but when i was a kid in nyc, local criminals ran numbers games and degenerates hung out at off track betting.
.gambling was not normal.

It was not part of lifes fabric.

I recall 3 card monte games on nyc streets!

Crazy how life was in the 70s

I despise it. It shouldnt be criminalized but statistics should be taught better in grade school

Money is way too hard to earn for people to lose it thinking thryre lucky and for crooks to take it from them with flashy games

Now marriage, kids, that is a gamble. And nowadays, etrade.