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int_19h 11 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: How did sports betting become legal in the US?

Something that couldn't be sustained cannot be said to have worked. The numbers don't matter if the policy doesn't have genuinely broad and non-performative public approval, and Prohibition clearly didn't, given how many people skirted those laws.

rayiner 11 months ago [–]

That’s like saying “dieting doesn’t work.” It does work, as GLP-1 drugs have proven. People just lacked the willpower to do the healthy thing.

int_19h 11 months ago | [–]

If people lack the willpower to sustain it, then it's not a working solution in a democracy, as simple as that.

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