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"The legalization of gambling in the form of state lotteries has sometimes been observed to help the illegal numbers business, rather than replace it,49 and thus it might also promote other capricious risk-taking activities. Gambling suppresses natural inhibitions against taking risks, and some of the gambling contracts, in particular the lotteries, superficially resemble financial markets: one deals with a computer, one receives a certificate (the lottery ticket), and, in the case of the so-called mega-lottos, one participates in a much-talked-about national phenomenon." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.) "The amount people in the United States lost on gambling in 2000 was more than they spent on movie tickets, recorded music, theme parks, spectator sports, and video games combined 48 Most forms of gambling and lotteries were outlawed by the states of this country in the 1870s after a scandal in the Louisiana lottery, and the Louisiana national lottery itself was effectively shut down by an 1890 act of Congress prohibiting the sale of lottery tickets by mail." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.) "But by 1975, there were thirteen state lotteries, and by 1999 there were thirty-seven, offering very convenient and easy means of wagering. Until 1990, legalized casinos operated only in Nevada and Atlantic City. By 1999 there were nearly 100 riverboat and dockside casinos and 260 casinos on Indian reservations. Over the same interval, betting at racetracks also expanded dramatically, with the development of off-track betting relying on satellite broadcasts of the races. Cable and Internet wagering on races is now possible from home." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.) "Gambling suppresses natural inhibitions against taking risks, and some of the gambling contracts, in particular the lotteries, superficially resemble financial markets: one deals with a computer, one receives a certificate (the lottery ticket), and, in the case of the so-called mega-lottos, one participates in a much-talked-about national phenomenon. Having established a habit of participating in such gambling, it would be natural to graduate to its more upscale form, speculation in securities. The period of highest U.S." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"With the proliferation of lotteries and casinos, gambling is fast becoming America's national pastime. When it comes to gambling, it's difficult to deny we live in an Orwellian era—consider this passage from George Orwell's 1984 (1949): "The Lottery, with its weekly pay-out of enormous prizes, was the one public event to which the proles [proletarians or working class] paid serious attention. It was probable that there were some millions of proles for whom the Lottery was the principal if not the only reason for remaining alive." - Bruce E. Levine, Surviving America's Depression Epidemic: How to Find Morale, Energy, and Community in a World Gone Crazy (Get the book.)

"There is no system of control with more openings, apertures, leeways, flexibilities, rewards for the chosen, winning tickets in lotteries. There is none that disperses its controls more complexly through the voting system, the work situation, the church, the family, the school, the mass media—none more successful in mollifying opposition with reforms, isolating people from one another, creating patriotic loyalty. One percent of the nation owns a third of the wealth." - Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (Get the book.)

"The advent of Off-Track Betting facilities as well as the growing popularity of state lotteries and other forms of legalized gambling started to erode the numbers of people who would go see live racing. However, wager amounts only kept increasing. In 1970 Bill Shoemaker broke Johnny Longden's record for most wins by a jockey (6,032). Shoe's record of 8,833 stood until 1999, when Laffit Pincay Jr. surpassed him. Secretariat, believed by many to be the greatest horse in history, won the Triple Crown in 1973." - The New York Times, The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind (Get the book.)

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