Govt + big business is normalising us to think that gambling is ok?

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Our Australian government, our Queensland + other state governments and the big gambing industries are actively advocating and fostering the growth of online gaming, pub+club gaming, casino gambling, animal racing gambling and people sports gambling in our communites and worldwide.

Gambling invitations are now hugely in our faces on TV, print and social media - even the media that our children are exposed to.

Businesses such as SportsBet, SportingBet, Tatts Bet, Tom Waterhouse Bet invite us to bet on anything.

Our Lotto + Golden Casket that originally financed our great health systems has recently been sold to private profiteers.

Currently over $20b of wealth is transfered out of our communities yearly around Australia and causes over $20b of damage + repair costs to our communities yearly.

This annual community loss can only increase due to the required increase in gambling and recruitment of new gamblers that must happen to support the growth in the gambling and racing industries that many of our disconnected community leaders are currently advocating for and currently abusing their community leader positions with arrogance to implement this growth - knowing that they have not involved our communities in decision making, knowing that our communities do not approve and knowing that it will not enhance the wellbeing of our communities.

Imagine how much greater, healthier, wealthier and debt free our country would be if these funds were kept circulating within our communities in productive ways.

Do we want our younger generations and children to grow up thinking that gambling is OK?

Is it normal for our communities to be normalised to accept that the exploitation of humans and animals for big gambling profits is OK?

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Based on 15 votes (4 yes)
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  • dom180
    9 years ago

    Gambling is big business here too (UK). Gambling ads are everywhere on TV, especially during the World Cup and horse-racing season, and the main aim of those ads is to present gambling as something that normal people do habitually. It is normal to gamble occasionally, but not habitually.

    I'm mixed on gambling. On one hand, individual liberties are valuable. On the other hand, the gambling industry is an ideal example of big business self-interest and lack of social responsibility. Gambling is addictive, and in capitalist society that means it treads a very fine line between inviting people to exercise their individual freedom and systematically taking advantage of them. Exploitation is the right word. In a large way I see it as a product of our capitalism, not an isolated problem of the gambling-industrial complex.

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  • RoseIsabella
    9 years ago

    My heart goes out to you, it truly does! I happen to live in the trendy gateway to hell known as Las Vegas. I'm only here to be close to family, because this is where my parents chose to retire for the second time. I hate and despise just about everything about the gambling culture except for the excellent shopping of which for the most part I can't afford to properly partake. Sometimes I think I'm living in purgatory. I hope when my days are at their end St Peter will count these years in Vegas as time served.

    I yearn to visit humid, rainy places where the grass grows green and the people don't have souls of plastic, hearts full of greed. I miss places like Texas and Florida; I crave fresh wholesomeness and humidity!

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    • RoseIsabella
      9 years ago

      GOD DAMNIT, whoever thumbed me down, bugger yerself with pine cone!

      Las Vegas is a prime example of why gambling is bad for society, a strong gambling culture makes people into douche lords.

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