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Originally Posted by Kentucky Buddha
I agree entirely, and not at all. This is why I react viscerally to being called a "gambler".
But you are! No harm meant.
I tend agree with vhawk as well. Most people simply do not appreciate the role chance plays in their daily and overall lives. Just because there are no visible numbers or cards attached to the risks they take on a daily basis means that they see their choices and activities as having no element of chance in it.
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Originally Posted by Kentucky Buddha
This parsing specific things in life to pejoratively and artificially define as gambling is nuts in my view.
The key issues lie in the cultural, societal and psychological domains. It's not a nutty view as you may think. Gambling i.e., monetary risk-taking in the format of entertainment for the purpose of gain is a cultural negative, so any activity, like poker, which so happens to share quite the exact characteristics of gambling will be seen in the same light. Would poker still be poker if there was no money involved? I think, yes.
I'll bet you a dollar to a dime that if the stock market was viewed by society like some corporate game (which it is) the same way poker is a game (which it is also), then brokers and traders will be lumped in the same class as gamblers and degenerates. Surely, you can't be oblivious as to why the realm of gambling is pejoratively treated?