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Originally Posted by lagtight
False.
Socialist Poker: Rake is paid by people not invited to play in the game.
Actually I'm not sure how to take that joke.
In socialism the government would own the game and perhaps provide it free of rake because taxpayers would provide the cost to run the room. But I'm not sure how that translates into the taxpayers not being invited to play.
In the US system the government would buy the store front and furniture and set up a private individual with the poker room using taxpayer money, then the private individual would rake the customers and likely pay house shills to cheat for him. Then he'd hire immigrant workers and pay them less than minimum wage. When the employees tried to unionize he'd call them socialists.