> For example, porn meets some actual human needs and has a certain function - but gambling? Simple abuse at scale.

Now I'm as as free-minded as people typically gets, but both of those are just "entertainment" for me, one is not more "essential" than the other, what exact "human need" does pornography meet that somehow gambling doesn't also meet, since we're not talking about "fun" or "entertainment" here but something else it sounds like.

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8-prime 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

While the porn industry has issue, at its core it isn't constructed to extract money from you.

Boiling Gambling down to just being "entertainment" is a bit too reductionist in my opinion.

	▲	embedding-shape 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> While the porn industry has issue, at its core it isn't constructed to extract money from you. For what purpose do you think that industry was indirectly created for, if not to make money from people? Even if it might not have been created with that intent (although I'd still argue it was), today it surely is mainly driven and maintain with the (at least) implicit purpose of extracting money from people, that's literally why we call it an "industry" instead of just a "community".
	▲	lurkshark 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		> it isn't constructed to extract money from you I mean yes, it is; It’s not a charity. I guess you could argue it tends to do it slower than gambling?

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jjulius 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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