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For a Dollar and a Dream
99% Invisible
The Importance of Legalizing Gambling
The lottery is sold to the public as an effective way to suppress vice and even could be virtuous because buying a lottery ticket then fills the state's coffers so it can buy good things. This is like the lesson that people take away from prohibition is that there's no point in trying to suppress something that people are trying to do anyway. That's the other like crazy point: All these investigations into illegal gambling, all they do is just give people the impression that gambling is really, really lucrative.
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