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wanna see a magic trick? (europe.pub)
submitted 3 weeks ago* by to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
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But seriously what kind of predatory policy is that in the first place?

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[–] 4 points 3 weeks ago* (1 child)

Yeah, not to be pithy but the first step is admitting there's a problem. That's where we're at now (or trying to get to).

It's so weird to me that sports/gambling have become so conflated. Clearly a lot of money has been thrown at the businesses running professional sports to land us here.

Cigarettes is a perfect analogy. It's not even an extreme comparison, both are undeniably a net harm to people, but are somehow normalized.

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    It really is. Tons of people still smoke. Some people chain smoke so much that it'll kill them before they're 50. We try to convince them stop smoking but if they want to smoke 5 packs a day we won't stop them. We don't advertise cigarettes. I mean they're cigarettes, they advertise themselves. So does gambling. The apps aren't advertising gambling, they're advertising their app against the other gambling apps. Gambling sells itself just fine.

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