wait does nobody actually talk about how state lotteries are racist attacks on marginalized communities that traditionally use neighborhood-organized numbers games to offset immiseration by enabling cyclic largesse spending
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Replying to @chaosprime
I've seen that discussed but not often enough. Compared to the numbers, government lotteries have terrible payoffs (which are taxed) and the money all leaves the community, *maybe* to come back later.
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yeah, i formed the thought a while ago and assumed that like everything else if i've noticed it then an enormous body of literature has already beaten it to death, but i randomly googled for it this morning and google was like "i have no idea what you're talking about"
7:45 AM - 7 May 2019
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