Did you hear that they laid off so many people now that skill games are illegal?

 Disgusting, absolutely disgusting. I mean, I touched on this in my last article on skill games, but I wanna address this more directly. 

I don't care if skill games employ people. I am of the opinion that people shouldnt be forced to work for a living in the first place. Everyone should have a UBI and no one should be forced to take a job doing something crappy that they don't wanna do just to survive. The fact that we leverage peoples' survival when we get rid of an ethically questionable practice like *checks notes* putting slot machines in every public place imaginable is just...disgusting. it disgusts me. And it misses the point.

Really. I don't care if people were employed doing that. Those jobs were BS jobs. Those people were "goons" in David Graeber's terminology. Not only did their jobs not contribute positively to society, but they actually were arguably a negative. We shouldnt celebrate employing people for the sake of employing them.

This doesnt mean i dont feel bad for those who are laid off. However, to focus on that and just go JOBS as if it's a universal good disgusts me. We didnt evolve for millions of years just to trick people into giving away their life savings to some brightly colored machine that preys on them psychologically. Hell, the whole practice of slots being so attractive is BECAUSE our systems makes people so desperate in the first place where an alternative to working and earning money very slowly is to instead gamble and hope you win, but probably lose and ruin your life worse than it was before. Why are we not talking about THAT more? No one wants to talk about that. it's just OMG what about the jobs! Again, people shouldnt be coerced to work in this crappy economy in the first place! Everyone should get crap for free, free stuff is GOOD actually, and #### your work ethic bull####. That's my honest opinion on this. I dont care if you lost jobs. I dont care if bars are losing customers. Alcohol sucks too and hey, we say when people are drunk they can't consent and that sex is rape, but hey, if you give a machine all your money when drunk, hey, that's totally voluntary, right guys? Again. I don't care. I'm over it. I don't care if businesses lose money and workers lose their jobs because we banned some quite frankly unethical practices from existing. I really, really dont. Again, sucks for them. And those people should have a UBI that protects them from this, but let's be blunt. The fact that our economic model expects people to make a living doing unethical things like this is just a moral condemnation of the whole thing. It really is. Our whole society is sick, and we need to rethink how it works on an existential level. More jobs arent good, more business isnt good, it just seems good because we force people to work to earn money in a world where that isn't even necessary any more to some degree and keeping that practice alive is actually quite harmful. Really, this whole skill games thing is just an example of why employment and GDP growth at all costs is actually a bad thing. 

I know this is gonna rub some people the wrong way, but sorry not sorry, that's how I see it.