Topic: Importance of Gambling to the society - page 21. (Read 2835 times)

Gambling makes you relax. Smoking, banging girls, drinking alcohol also make you relax. Relaxing is a good thing. Otherwise you will go crazy and do crazy things. Nobody wants that shit. The government don't want it too. Because of that in most countries gambling is legal. Computer games are also have a similar effect on people. They keep the young people busy and it is a good thing. If these people weren't playing games, some of them would do drugs and nobody wants that too.

It's better if you give a better explanation, Monaco is a popular country about gambling, but the citizen isn't allowed to gamble, then which one gamble in Monaco and how the casino can make money if no one gamble there?

Gambling is definitely help the government to make more money, but government is an evil institution because they can corrupt the money and not use it to build facilitation or something that can improve their country.

The tax, it's their contribution to help the Government and to continue operating legally. Aside from that, they're providing health funds, doing charity works and giving medical assistance for less fortunate people. I have relative who ask for medical assistance from casino and yes they're giving financial assistance as long as you can present a complete documents (medical records, receipts etc.)

Though we often see a casino as a bad influence to people because of the possibility to become addicted when we gamble. There's a good side of it that many of us can't see because the bad effect greatly outweigh the advantage of gambling. It's not all about the negative effect since there's also goodness if you look on the other side.

This is the exact reason why United States of America allow many casinos to run their business with no problem Casino is one of the ways that United States of America has used to grown so much in the past years, there are many revenue coming from casinos through taxes and other things like I have heard from a cousin of mine living in that country.

I believe that you are correct about this OP but honestly the government is benefiting from casinos but not the gamblers themselves so your point is looking like so if I'm losing through gambling I shouldn't feel that bad because the government is somehow benefiting from casinos like my losses is turning into favour for the government and it's country? That doesn't feel good because I don't give a hell about the government but myself, who cares? Gamblers just want to make money but justifying gambling as been beneficial to the country is nonsense in the face of gamblers.

Bitcoin today would have been allowed and legally accepted by the government if somehow they're benefiting out of Bitcoin investment do you know reason why bitcoin have slowdown in progression is because the government are not benefiting from bitcoin itself just think and look at it and try to compare it with what is happening with casinos, you will know where I am coming from.

The main benefit from gambling for me is to have something to do in the evenings. Especially during the hard time of covid lockdowns I was struggling to find something to do at home except for reading a book or playing video games. Twice I had to isolate myself for a week and couldn't do anything than watch TV at home, which got boring really fast. I am getting too old for most of the new video games and don't get the fun anymore from them to play for a long period of time. Going back to playing regular online poker was my main form of entertainment during that time and with that I also started playing other casino games regularly again. My friends had similar experience and all started visiting online casinos again. So, the main benefit for my male friends is to have entertainment from home while you can't leave your house. As for my female friends I don't know if they get any benefit from gambling, maybe a quiet night knowing that their husband is at home and don't have to worry about them. In general, the tax benefit from the gambling industry is probably what helps society at a whole the most.

Do what's right and satisfactory for us, weigh better than sticking to our losses and regrets, we're humans and we make mistakes, and also our job to correct them without putting the blames on anyone, grabbing the important sectors of gambling. Gambling is one of the legal activities that would generate more extra cash to the pocket, atleast its more popular than trading that's prohibited in most countries. Gambling have both negative and positive features, just try to stick with the positive interests because its one of the easiest ways to count good money.

Of course, gambling could provide taxes because they are a business that is operating profitably. The gambling industry is a billion-dollar industry, so that means the government is getting millions of dollars as taxes, if not billions.

However, there are countries that do not allow gambling due to some reasons.

1- It's against their religious belief (no ifs or whatsoever because whatever the teaching says, they have to follow).
2- It destroys the country by increasing the poverty rate due to irresponsible gambling.

So let's tackle irresponsible gambling. Actually, if the government would still like to benefit from gambling taxes, they can just eradicate irresponsible gambling. However, it's quite impossible for poor countries as we can assume that one of the causes of high poverty is people being less educated, so it's hard to educate them about responsible gambling. The last resort is to ban gambling.

Fiat gambling is when you use diat to gamble. Online gambling is when you are gambling online using your phone, tablet or computer for it. On online gambling you can use crypto or fiat. I can understand you, but what you are try to say are land based casinos, not fiat gambling.

In countries that gambling is legal and government are stringent to collect the tax, both that gambling sites and those that are winning are paying tax. The gambling site itself will deduct the tax from the gamblers that win. But how many gamblers are winning than losing? If you lose than win, no tax to pay.

I have never experienced with it because my country hasn't implemented it since I was born. But, some articles I've read, in decades ago on Jakarta had a governor who implemented gambling as taxes and success with it. but due to controversy so don't continue until today.
 
Actually, some negative thread about gambling addiction is not to fear someone playing the casino, as far as I know, it's just for mitigation or security to keep saving our money. It depends also on the person, if someone is easily addicted, better to reduce and limit his money before too late.

I do not agree with this. It has some positive contribution to society if you dig around, but it is not a sector that is recognised for its positivity, like healthcare for example.

The same argument that taxes and revenues are used to do things for society can be applied to tobacco revenues, for example, and even if tobacco has some positives (it helps concentration and intellectual work, for example), I don't think we can say that tobacco and its industry is typically a positive sector for society.

Yes every action has both positive and negative impacts on the society. If we keep on pointing the negative aspects of it, then the positive things that is happening will be ignored and suppressed. I am not saying gambling is good, but yes we need to see the positive aspect of it. Though there are major differences between online crypto gambling and fiat gambling. As op is talking about the taxes is collected only from fiat casinos. Many online casinos still doesn’t pay the taxes. To be frank Gambling is completely banned in my country, at least FIAT gambling, so yes we don’t see any great impact happening through gambling.

State taxes generated from the gambling industry are usually used for the development of a country's infrastructure and also provide assistance to those who are less fortunate, but on the other hand gambling also has a negative impact on people who cannot be responsible and take wrong actions because most people making gambling to make a profit not for entertainment.
But it is true that the gambling industry has both positive and negative sides depending on each individual who takes advantage of it.
I myself have had many good and bad experiences while in the gambling industry and that way I can take what is right and wrong when I am in the gambling industry.

Gambling is a business. And just like every business, their goal is to make profit. For them to make profit, they must employ people who run the day to day activities of the business. So we can say that gambling provides job opportunities for people. And these people can in turn stay themselves, their families and society at large.

Most people who gamble as a form of entertainment and do so at a physical casino may decide to have unofficial business meetings there. It offering networking opportunities too wey business ideas and partnerships are discussed. And some of these networking leads to businesses that have positive impacts on the society.

We can also argue with Monaco as an example that gambling is bad. They allow casinos but won't allow their own people to use them because they care for them.

There's a silver lining in gambling of course. One of that is the revenue that it provides to the government. There are other good things that gambling provides like entertainment, the chance to make money, etc.

But it also doesn't take away the evils it also creates. Addiction is one. People spending money that should have been used in more important things. There are many more.

That is all I can notice that has an effect on the positive side, and I agree that gambling casinos are one of the biggest tax payers in a country, and a lot of people benefit from them. Only entertainment can be positive and affect us. No matter how we think, it has a negative effect on people no matter what, but still, we can't ban it as it helps the country as a whole.

if we look at the owners of the beer companies, we will see that they are not people addicted to alcohol and they do not die due to some car accident because they were driving a car while they had consumed a lot of beer, but we will see that the owners of the beer factories have been drinking, which problem in everything we do in life is exaggeration, playing at the casino is not a problem, on the contrary it is something very good, it makes people have a lot of fun, but it becomes a big problem when people start to exaggerate, they start to gamble everyday to forget the problems they have in the real world, some people because they have too many bills to pay

and we'll see other lucky people who won a lot at the casino start to see the casino as a way to make a lot of money and pay all their bills and unfortunately they start to lose even more money and get into depression and kill themselves, that's something that doesn't just happen to gambling, I gave a great example of beer, people drink a lot of beer even though they are going to drive a car and end up having accidents and killing other people, each person is responsible for himself, it would not be fair to blame some casino or game of chance by the high numbers of addicted people, what should be done and always tell people to moderate

there are countries that even prohibit gambling, but let people consume a lot of alcohol and kill other people, it gets to be sad, it seems that these governments do not realize that this is not how problems will be solved, and it is necessary to carry out campaigns to call people's tension about responsible gaming, about not overindulging in alcohol and anything

Really, I never knew that the gambling industry was so important to society 

As I have heard that some people are ruined due to excessive gambling, some are addicted to it and others may face separation from their families too because of not caring about the family and constantly losing money in gambling. Does the gambling industry heal them too ? Do the gambling sites compensate the losses of the gamblers 

The gambling industry contributed a lot to the coffer of the government where they operate our casinos and lottery are operated by our government and a considerable portion of the profit goes to the health sector and the poor, this is why gambling is not considered by many as evil here, and the citizen are encouraged to support the lottery by buying a ticket.
 
They not only help the poor with all their health needs but they also have a chance to change their life when they hit the jackpot, for a third-world country that does not have commodities to sell in the world market like oil, taxes coming from the gambling platform is a big help to sustain their economy.

This is happening in many places. Even in my nearby state lottery is run successfully and it is a big success and even the people who doesn't have much of knowledge and belief in luck too buys it. Here it is much focused on development of the medical department infrastructure. Apart the state have taken special measures in treating people free of cost for Cancer. Through gambling some form of good things were happening around, and no private entities were allowed.

If only people are responsible in their gambling activity, gambling would be marked as beneficial in the history of mankind.  the only problem is that people does not know how to control themselves.  Those who have self-discipline issue tarnish the reputation of gambling.  Since gambling revenue is used to help the government in development and attending the needs of its citizen, these people who have personal discipline issue should be banned and excommunicated in the name of gambling benefits. LOL (J/K).

Seriously speaking without this gambling addiction, gambling should be one of the top helping industries that contributes to a country progress and development.