I think I understood what you said. Why are gamblers considered reactionary, though? Arent they more victims of their potential addiction? (I'm not a gambler Ive played slots maybe two or three times, but that's it.) I've always considered most gamblers to be people who suffer from possible addiction. The few who are lucky enough to get out of it with money are so rare that they don’t really change my view on the issue.

I'm very open to changing my mind, though. I haven’t really engaged with gambling culture or its problems at all, to be honest.

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago

Gamblers as in the mafia running gambling games, i.e. those who make money off gambling. No one can really do gambling as their profession unless they own the house.

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago

It's because the whole concept of a "Criminal class" is the result of middle class English Protestants trying to create a framework for understanding society that conformed to their religious worldview ie God loves rich people because God made rich people morally good and hates poor people because he made poor people morally depraved. Communists who still cling to the idea of a "Lumpen" just flipped "God made rich people good" for "God made working people good" while retaining the morality and moralizing of British middle class white society of the 1890s.

It has no basis in sociology, anthropology, medicine, or science generally.