If Betting Were Taxed Like Cigarettes - A Health Levy on Every Stake - Would You Still Bet?

[FadeThePublic]

They've calculated everything about us.

The levy is just one more variable they've already priced in.

 

[DublinDegen]

came into this thread thinking it was a policy question...

turned out to be a question about whether i'd stop if it cost more...

answer is no...

and that tells me exactly what i already knew but hadn't said that clearly in a while...

 

[ParlayPrincess_88]

Same honestly.

I said yes I'd still bet before I'd even thought about it.

That's the most honest thing I've learned about myself from a hypothetical tax question.

Didn't expect that this afternoon.

 

[CoachTony_Bets]

Came in as a policy question.

Left as a self-knowledge question.

The tax is almost irrelevant. What you find out about yourself by answering it isn't.

 

[SharpEddie47]

The fig leaf removal is the value.

Strip away every rational justification.

What's left is just a person who bets.

For most of us in this thread: that's what's there.

Everything else is architecture around something simpler and harder to look at.

 

[Klaus]

Accurate.

The sophisticated language was load-bearing.

This thread removed it briefly.

Worth seeing what was underneath.