Originally Posted by
Gottlob1
Gambling, however, is a glorified version of so-called democracy, or the "art of politics", by which people put themselves into chicken coops, work ten times harder, their entire lives (only to wonder why at the end), than work, on and off never giving a shit, in a dictatorship, by which it's immediately obvious where you stand. No wonder that the gamblers, whichever, can't let go of the far-fetched, silly notion that they are the "cream of the crop". Look, it's no different from any other pursuit. You either make a little, or a lot. But, the ones who made a lot couldn't have done so, legitimately. In the case of gambling, it's no surprise that most of the ones who made a lot didn't do so by gambling per se, went on to lose it all by insider trading, and, that the very lucky few, rightly explained away by luck, went on to make even a hundred million. For the relatively tiny bit of money earned by the supposed multitude of card-counters, and the like, there were the many recreational (misnomer) slot players, lottery players, and the like, to pull out some truly life-changing jackpots. Another reason that literally no one, let alone the academics, gave, or will give, much of a crap about the gambling forums, and the people on them. Yeah, a few academics did collect their own (illegitimate) "healthy fees", from the billion-dollar casinos, to extensively study how to build even better so-called democracies. But, that's about it.