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Australia - world leader !

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Created by Macroscien > 9 months ago, 15 May 2021
Macroscien
QLD, 6791 posts
15 May 2021 6:52PM
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Yep,
We love to gamble,
and the biggest gamble of all
still waiting for final results ......

Rails
QLD, 1370 posts
16 May 2021 4:30AM
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Macroscien said..
Yep,
We love to gamble,
and the biggest gamble of all
still waiting for final results ......


Not really a loss, more a wealth transference- essentially a corporate tax on stupidity

Mark _australia
WA, 22089 posts
16 May 2021 7:22AM
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My son said it best - from a 13 y/o

"Ladbrokes? More like broke lads....."

Macroscien
QLD, 6791 posts
16 May 2021 9:37AM
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Rails said..

Macroscien said..
Yep,
We love to gamble,
and the biggest gamble of all
still waiting for final results ......



Not really a loss, more a wealth transference- essentially a corporate tax on stupidity


Maybe you are right, but still this tax is paid mainly by those retaires playing POki for the money they dont have already. Money that there are going to spend anyway to pay for food, rent. Not a Bill Gates spinning the roulette wheel or Gina transferring her wealth to needy.

Macroscien
QLD, 6791 posts
16 May 2021 9:42AM
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Rails said..

Macroscien said..
Yep,
We love to gamble,
and the biggest gamble of all
still waiting for final results ......



Not really a loss, more a wealth transference- essentially a corporate tax on stupidity


Beside .
Since you are suggesting that is tax on stupidity,
doesn't that statistics point who is the dumbest nation on the planet?

bjw
NSW, 3567 posts
16 May 2021 9:49AM
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Mark _australia said..
My son said it best - from a 13 y/o

"Ladbrokes? More like broke lads....."


It's the worst name for a bookie ever!

eppo
WA, 9372 posts
16 May 2021 9:07AM
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Or maybe we understand life is short and finite and why not have a crack? Or maybe there are a number of us who enough free income to splash about on a punt here and there as we are more optimistic as well about future income potential.
Just seeing more gambling per capita as a stat and assuming we are all experiencing the horrible consequences of over gambling is just that, an assumption.


Be a better stat (if possible) to somehow measure the opportunity cost / loss per capita maybe.

AUS1111
WA, 3617 posts
16 May 2021 10:09AM
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Would you prefer to have your personal choices regulated by big brother?

theDoctor
NSW, 5765 posts
16 May 2021 12:57PM
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there's no pokies in the pubs in w.a
but there is tab
always used to watch on as guys lay out hundreds of dollars on horses and dogs
now
the gambling is an app on their phones and they don't even have to move from their seat to lose hundreds of dollars

warwickl
NSW, 2173 posts
16 May 2021 5:44PM
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I keep gambling on foil gear to improve my skills

bjw
NSW, 3567 posts
16 May 2021 6:53PM
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To be fair gaming on phones could be spending money anywhere overseas. Gaming machines pay for some of the nicest pubs and RSLs in NSW.

Mr Milk
NSW, 2868 posts
16 May 2021 7:47PM
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Think of the upside. Gambling is all about uncertainty and random events. That's quantum physics in a nutshell.
So when quantum computing comes in we'll already be used to it.

Pitbull
WA, 1267 posts
16 May 2021 7:35PM
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I'll bet you're right!

Macroscien
QLD, 6791 posts
17 May 2021 10:42AM
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Mr Milk said..
Think of the upside. Gambling is all about uncertainty and random events. That's quantum physics in a nutshell.
So when quantum computing comes in we'll already be used to it.


I like it. Imagine that you come to Bunnings or Coles to make you shopping and prices are random drawn at cashier. On average customers spend the same , shop ear ings too, just distribution of payment contribution change a bit.

Mark _australia
WA, 22089 posts
17 May 2021 6:12PM
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Pitbull said..
I'll bet you're right!


Hmm
$50 says he's not



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