> What I am definitely arguing here and now is that there is an inherent hypocrisy in the way we legally treat lotteries ...
Yes, and I just said we should regulate lotteries tightly and limit how much people can gamble on them. That removes that hypocrisy.
> That really depends on your perspective. I personally think that using wealth as a proxy for... well, really for anything other than wealth, ...
If you read my other comment, it has more to do with the risk of them surviving [financially] poor decision making.
Someone who makes $100k and puts $10k into risky bets is more likely to survive than someone who makes $30k and does the same thing. Its a question of scale.
> then you should focus on providing better financial education, instead of restricting the fiscal agency of everyone else in the same income bracket.
Education requires the student to be motivated to learn. There are plenty of resources to learn about financial decisions and community colleges teach relatively cheap personal finance classes.
Yes, and I just said we should regulate lotteries tightly and limit how much people can gamble on them. That removes that hypocrisy.
> That really depends on your perspective. I personally think that using wealth as a proxy for... well, really for anything other than wealth, ...
If you read my other comment, it has more to do with the risk of them surviving [financially] poor decision making.
Someone who makes $100k and puts $10k into risky bets is more likely to survive than someone who makes $30k and does the same thing. Its a question of scale.
> then you should focus on providing better financial education, instead of restricting the fiscal agency of everyone else in the same income bracket.
Education requires the student to be motivated to learn. There are plenty of resources to learn about financial decisions and community colleges teach relatively cheap personal finance classes.