I don’t mean anything by this question, but do you see any casino as a scumbag company too? or is there a difference in how valve is operating that puts them in that category?
I don’t think we have always thought of gambling in general as scummy. Although maybe. I don’t know. But inherently I think it is, because it exploits something we all share as humans — hope, without an innate understanding of probability and statistics. And I don’t think the early gambling profiteers understood how much they were actually exploiting people. But I don’t know much history there, so maybe they were. If so, more to my point of scumminess. 😅
I don’t mean anything by this question, but do you see any casino as a scumbag company too? or is there a difference in how valve is operating that puts them in that category?
Not the person you asked but I definitely see all casinos as scumbags, holy shit yes. Very exploitative business, definitely. Preying on weakness.
that’s fairly true, preying on weakness and all that. I guess I shouldve angled the question a bit different.
is there any form of gambling that isn’t scummy? I don’t think gambling is inherently exploitative, personally.
Gambling among friends, without a ‘house’ to rake a percentage off the top, is arguably non-scummy.
I don’t think we have always thought of gambling in general as scummy. Although maybe. I don’t know. But inherently I think it is, because it exploits something we all share as humans — hope, without an innate understanding of probability and statistics. And I don’t think the early gambling profiteers understood how much they were actually exploiting people. But I don’t know much history there, so maybe they were. If so, more to my point of scumminess. 😅