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I strongly disagree with this. First off, if you think that casinos are so evil, stop working for them. But I have a good news for you, they are not interested in worsening of the mental health of their clients. Quite the contrary, they want as many as possible of healthy clients playing on their platforms, and losing only what they can afford to lose. In that scenario casinos can keep profiting from the house edge. But if the percentage of addicted gamblers crossed a certain threshold(it is below 5% currently), gambling would be banned by the legislation of most countries. And casinos definitely don't want that to happen.
I do not blame or say that casinos are to blame for all the troubles. It is a fact that most of all profits are brought to them by dependent players, otherwise you would have significantly fewer people going to the casino than we see now. The question is about the mental health of an individual, not how casinos affect it.
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Are you sure this is a fact? Because I'm not. I think it is a myth created by media, TV series, books and movies. Why do they try to sell it? Because it sells! People love stories about villains, who profit of the misery of others. So they make up such stories even when there is little to no factual ground for that.
I think it is more likely that most of the profits comes from most of the gamblers, and most gamblers, about 95% of them, are not addicted.
That's 100% accurate, I agree with it, because if we think casinos are making money from people who suffers from their loses, them simply casinos or gambling industry will not grow as our government will ban it.
Thank you! That's exactly my point. Any government, even an evil one like in North Korea, needs healthy citizens. And even if all casinos were owned by them(the government), they would close the business if it harmed too much people. They can easily reap the benefits in other fields(in any field, actually), when people in their country are in good physical and mental health.