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Society (i.e us) is to blame. We made this stuff legal. There was no need whatsoever. We don't get to blame the people working at these companies.

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I think the blame falls much more squarely on powerful individuals like Adam Silver[1] and the companies that lobbied for this[2] than on society as a whole.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/14/opinion/nba-commissioner-...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/20/business/sports-betting-l...

Everything starts out permitted. Making things illegal requires action, and enforcing laws requires the application of nonconsensual violence - a direct action.

This goes back to the trolley problem. I'm part of society, and I'm not to blame in any way for this; I had nothing to do with it.

Read a little on the history of gambling in the US. It was illegal in almost all the US until recently, and could have been contained.

If you are in the US, you are to blame for the US gambling situation. We make the rules as a society.

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