Re: Being told \"professional poker doesn\'t contribute to society.\"
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I didn't sign the social contract.
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We live in a country whose guiding ideology is post-modern capitalism. There is no social contract.
Poker is one of the most honest professions there is. We're not trying to sell somebody something for more than it cost us to make it, and we're not paying people less than the profit we earn from their labor. When you sit down at a poker table and play for real money, there is but one objective to the economic exchange, and everybody is fully aware of it when they sit down.
I think America's guiding ideology these days can be summarized as caveat emptor, just like at the poker table, and at the table, at least we're honest about it.
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