• ikilledtheradiostar [comrade/them, love/loves]@hexbear.net
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    2 months ago

    Why ban gambling when you can just create conditions where its not possible to ruin your life by gambling. Like can’t gamble away your house if its community managed. Cannot impoverish ‘your’ kids if they’re not dependent on a nuclear family.

    • egg1918 [she/her]@hexbear.net
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      2 months ago

      why ban gambling when you can press the big red communism button

      No shit I want a world in which those conditions don’t exist, why do you think I’m on this website?

    • Diuretic_Materialism [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      2 months ago

      What the fuck would people be gambling in this hypothetical society? M&M? I don’t think the government current breaks up retirees player poker for pennies in their spare time.

      • ikilledtheradiostar [comrade/them, love/loves]@hexbear.net
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        2 months ago

        Your close to understanding then. Gambling exists because of capitalism just as Engle’s outlined about prostitution. You can’t ban capitalism you can’t ban gambling you can’t ban prostitution you can only create the conditions in which it doesn’t exist.

        Well that’s not totally true you can ban these things but only in the contest of expanding enforcement mechanisms.