alt Hacker News> we don't allow gambling in every convenience store in the country
In Ontario we do allow gambling in every convenience store in the province.
There are scratch tickets right there on the counter. There's the OLG machine for printing and checking lottery tickets and sports betting.
It has been this way for as long as I can remember, but it's never been in your face like the last few years.
Maybe we'll start repurposing the washrooms and stock rooms for poker tournaments soon.
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SoftTalker • yesterday at 7:25 PM
Yes, same in the US. States like to lecture us on gambling when they are the biggest operators out there.
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Lottery tickets at least avoid the worst aspects of the real time feedback that things like slot machines can give. Though scratchoffs certainly get closer.
I do hold out some hope that in this pendulum swing we can land at least for a while on banning state sponsored gambling, though. It'll come back. Too appealing to keep down forever, unfortunately. I like to say it's a good exercise to sit down and really think about the difference between "organized crime" and a "government" but when a "government" does things like zealous defense of its gambling monopoly it does rather weaken the distinction....