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brettgriffin ◴[] No.45775525[source]
The problem isn't the 70M people who placed bets, its the ~25M with broken risk aversion.

These are mostly men, and a very specific type of men. You can try to curtail their access to gambling but we're missing the underlying problem.

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1. JumpinJack_Cash ◴[] No.45783701[source]
> > The problem is the ~25M with broken risk aversion.

Problem for you maybe. A life lived in fear is not worth living at all