High Rolling in Detroit

[Carl Remick]

> I guess a comparison with gambling would be the purchase of 
> alcohol or drugs. The happy moments and relief are an 
> illusion in a sense. But that doesn't make them not happy 
> moments or a relief from day-to-day alienation and blues....
> 
> As Marx said, the source of use values may be the stomach or 
> FANCY. The use value of gambling is rooted in fancy, but 
> different people fancy different things. 
> 
> So, I would critique casino capitalists just as I critique 
> all capitalists, say health care capitalists, no better , no worse.

Very cogently put, Charles.  I still have a nagging suspicion that
gambling as a *growth industry* signals something askew with this
country that isn't expressed  by other forms of capitalist exploitation,
but I clearly have to think more about this subject.

Carl