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Charles: Did you hear? Next week’s lottery will be 28 million dollars! You got your ticket yet?
Joan: I didn’t buy lottery tickets, and I don’t gamble on other ways, either. Lottery tickets ate just another way of taxing the poor.
Charles: What do you mean by that?
Joan: Many of the big spenders on lottery tickets ate poor. They are spending money they can’t afford to spend.
Charles: I just buy lottery tickets for fun. You know…the first prize is a huge amount, and if would be exciting.
Joan: But you don’t need the money to enjoy life, so for you it’s a game. But when the poor buy lottery tickets, it is often out of desperation.
Charles: You must be right. Casinos are opening everywhere, and many people go on gambling holiday—you can even take a gambling cruise.
Joan: Imagine being on an ocean cruise and spending all your time indoors bent over a card table or a roulette wheel.
Charles: Maybe there should be some programs to help people overcome their gambling addictions something similar to Alcoholics Anonymous.
Joan: There’s indeed an online program that can help. But nobody can force gamblers to join it. They must first want to be cured themselves.
Joan: I didn’t buy lottery tickets, and I don’t gamble on other ways, either. Lottery tickets ate just another way of taxing the poor.
Charles: What do you mean by that?
Joan: Many of the big spenders on lottery tickets ate poor. They are spending money they can’t afford to spend.
Charles: I just buy lottery tickets for fun. You know…the first prize is a huge amount, and if would be exciting.
Joan: But you don’t need the money to enjoy life, so for you it’s a game. But when the poor buy lottery tickets, it is often out of desperation.
Charles: You must be right. Casinos are opening everywhere, and many people go on gambling holiday—you can even take a gambling cruise.
Joan: Imagine being on an ocean cruise and spending all your time indoors bent over a card table or a roulette wheel.
Charles: Maybe there should be some programs to help people overcome their gambling addictions something similar to Alcoholics Anonymous.
Joan: There’s indeed an online program that can help. But nobody can force gamblers to join it. They must first want to be cured themselves.
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