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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumWe live in a casino economy
In a casino the house always ends up with all the chips while 99% of the players end up broke in the long run because the game is rigged. Hillary Clinton wants to maintain the casino economy, Bernie Sanders wants to put an end to it.
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We live in a casino economy (Original Post)
gyroscope
Feb 2016
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The casino always wins unless it's owned by Donald Trump. In that case, it goes bankrupt.
hedda_foil
Feb 2016
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olddots
(10,237 posts)1. truer words have not been spoken
It is a fool's game
hedda_foil
(16,375 posts)2. The casino always wins unless it's owned by Donald Trump. In that case, it goes bankrupt.
Jim Lane
(11,175 posts)3. Literal casinos are more closely regulated than is most of the economy.
Wall Street, in particular, gets away with things that dwarf anything casinos can do.
and with real casinos you have the choice of not playing.