return2ozma@lemmy.world to United States | News & Politics@lemmy.ml · 4 days agoGambling becomes America’s favorite pastime as Americans spend more on sports bets than movies, arts, museums, and music combinedfortune.comexternal-linkmessage-square3linkfedilinkarrow-up119arrow-down11cross-posted to: aboringdystopia@lemmy.worldnews@lemmy.world
arrow-up118arrow-down1external-linkGambling becomes America’s favorite pastime as Americans spend more on sports bets than movies, arts, museums, and music combinedfortune.comreturn2ozma@lemmy.world to United States | News & Politics@lemmy.ml · 4 days agomessage-square3linkfedilinkcross-posted to: aboringdystopia@lemmy.worldnews@lemmy.world
minus-square☂️-@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up3·4 days agosad shit. in my country, predatory betting has already become a big addiction and life-destroying problem. legalized by the hardline far righters, no less. so much for “protecting the economy from drug addiction”
minus-squareeldavi@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 days agothe british hit it big by addicting their populations to opium the americans hit it big by addicting their populations to tabacco. it seems to be par for the course for nations – especially western ones.
sad shit. in my country, predatory betting has already become a big addiction and life-destroying problem.
legalized by the hardline far righters, no less. so much for “protecting the economy from drug addiction”
the british hit it big by addicting their populations to opium
the americans hit it big by addicting their populations to tabacco.
it seems to be par for the course for nations – especially western ones.