• darq@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Except if you have enough money, it’s not even gambling anymore. The only way you’d lose is if everybody loses.

    And that’s completely ignoring the fact that enough money lets you influence the rules of the game to tilt the odds in your favour.

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      1 year ago

      Once you have enough money you can make even more by betting against others’ success.

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      1 year ago

      And if you’re only slightly rich (as in, daddy’s a lawyer) you can afford to gamble, lose, and then try again.

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    1 year ago

    If you’re rich you can afford to gamble, lose and try again.

    If you’re poor, you can gamble, win, and then have to spend your winnings helping out your family and community. Like, paying for the operation your uncle needs but couldn’t afford, or helping mom’s friend from church avoid losing her home.

    This is a reason that a lot of poor-person owned businesses don’t grow. They may start strong, but then the business owner has trouble continuing to invest.

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      Not unless you do it outside a golden palace that abstracts your money into vouchers and chips.

      But generally wealthy people make more gambles in business, partnership, accountability, other people’s lives and social welfare, and the general stability of the world.

      Like say becoming an arms dealer then paying the cost of a F-150 economy package to a couple senators and having them spend their endless war chests with no audits or oversight on some missiles to kill some goat farmers or something.

      Or creating a pesticide with the upside of remaining active in soil for 4 or 5 centuries (and recycling in the human liver for up to a year after exposure) and having it produced in an impoverished southern town and then exported to French Polynesia so they can continue to grow cloned banana trees.

      Or like taking doctors on nice yacht lunches and golf trips and telling them yes you really have developed a non addictive opioid.