Future edge

Gambling instead of taxes: State-run gambling is replacing taxes and undermines the requirement of democracy that its citizens make choices about how their taxes are raised and distributed to support the public will. Gamble supports the concept of fate as the mechanism for distributing the bounty of the world and subverts the idea that hard work and learning pay off. Gambling organizations will appeal to 1 in 120 million odds by putting winners out front in the media and promoting these individuals, who have received a distribution of the population wealth just because of luck.