Question inspired by the news that Dave and Busters is supposed to be adding gambling to their games. And of course there are the sports betting apps.
I get that all things being equal we should let people do what they want to do. But I don’t see much of a benefit, and a lot of downside to allowing the spread of gambling.
What I mean is regulating a vice means putting some kind of guard rails on it. Alcohol is legal, but not for children, and many places have rules about how it’s advertised, training for servers and not serving clearly intoxicated customers.
Should there be rules about gambling like, “you’ve lost $10k this month, no more betting for a while”, that kind of thing. In recent years it seems like you can bet on anything anywhere, and it’s being pushed very hard in advertising. Doesn’t seem like there is much going on in the way of regulation.