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
Have you read the Poker Face of Wall Street by Aaron Brown?
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He suggests a similar notion was at play among prospectors in the wild west. Cyclical largesse as well as capital pooling.
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Replying to @smart_intellecc @chaosprime
Via the camaraderie and mechanism of poker
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Is it possible that social media - with its superstars who emerge seemingly at random - provides a parallel mechanism for *social* capital?
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Replying to @mattskala @smart_intellecc
that seems possible af reality TV being the immediate precursor in the role and not exactly out of it yet
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