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Professional sports look like gambling but are actually fraud.
War? gambling and fraud.
And when it comes to actual material productive industries, I always say we have two: killing people and burning oil.
Automobiles? Burning oil
Aviation? Mostly military planes, so both
Polymers and petrochemicals? Burning oil
Weapons manufacturing? Killing people
Construction? Ultimately, since the roads and bridges are all car-focused, burning oil.
Steel? Seems good at first, but it’s ultimately going to be turned into a car (burning oil) or a weapon (killing people).
The cherry on top is that, because of climate change, all of the “burning oil” bits are also secretly killing people.
Burning oil is just the kickflip-onto-rakes version of killing people.
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Car would also counts as killing people, particularly the oversize monstrosities produced in the US.
What about selling weapons?
Believe it or not, gambling.
Except when it’s fraud.
Well, fraud under Don Tzupid. Or just evil.
Fraud - absurd markups and cheating vassals.
If we’re talking about the MIC, fraud
Prostitution? Gambling.
Exotic dancing? Fraud.
Dealing street drugs? Gambling.
Marketing pharmaceuticals? Fraud.
Derivatives?
Derivatives is a blanket term that refers to a variety of complex financial “bets” that are available to “sophisticated investors”. It’s worth knowing that the derivatives market is over ten times larger than the value of all the stocks in the US stock market, at ~$850 trillion with a T. This definitely won’t cause any systemic issues like it did last time
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Of course!
Most video games aren’t gambling …
Are you implying there might be some fraud?
The games that generate the most profit are.
The rest are art.
Art sales are used to legitimatize money transfers for fraud. So fraud.
Pretty sure that’s a very small fraction of all art.
And art doesn’t make money.
Gambling does.
i think the meme creator was probably talking about the prevalence of lootboxes and skin gambling with that
Arguably it is, just not in the conventional way. As a player, you’re spending your time (and money to buy the game) with the hope of winning some dopamine from it. As a developer/studio, you’re gambling time and money to devrlop a game in the hopes that it does well and makes the money back
Lmao that is not what anyone means when they say gambling and you know it.
By that logic, all entertainment is gambling. Petting a cat is gambling. Hiking is gambling. You’re gambling by replying in this thread.
By that metric, any business endeavor is gambling.
Unless its fraud
I think that’s the joke
It’s about loot boxes and the like
