Originally Posted by MisterV View Post
Currently we have a capitalist system in America but also a large number of individuals who have failed at life and require / receive government money to survive, i.e. "welfare."

Are you suggesting capitalism be abolished and that we all go on the dole?

Where will the money to make the payments to the populace come from?

While I confess to being fairly unfamiliar with life in Europe these days, by report there are some welfare states there, or at least countries whose policies lean that way more than in the USA: if so, how are these welfare states doing, gambling-wise?

Seems to me that if we were all on welfare we'd all be too broke to piss away our spare change on gambling, but hey, the heart is a lonely hunter.
Are you suggesting capitalism be abolished and that we all go on the dole????? Did I suggest that? Does this question even make sense? Do people work only in capitalist economies? As someone else mentioned the Scandinavian model, those, for example, are welfare states that work within a capitalist framework, and, as far as I know, since its regulation, gambling is booming in those countries.

You are all missing the point, though. I'm not trying to say which economic model would make a better society. I'm trying to look at it from the perspective of the gambling industry and professional gamblers. The more people with disposable income, the better. Just my opinion.