• Mulligrubs@lemmy.world
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      9 days ago

      Great idea, we’ll get a new mafia that runs illegal gambling from street to championship level.

      You either have an illegal but very popular activity run by “the black market”, or a legal but very popular activity run by the government and capitalists. The market doesn’t go away

      Either way, with a market this massive, the profits are insane. This would be much bigger than the drug trade, gambling is the very easiest and most popular of such “sinful” activities.

      • bob_lemon@feddit.org
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        9 days ago

        True.

        Although the main reason for legal gambling is that it allows for regulation. And I cannot see any of that being done at the moment.