Is choosing not to have children selfish?

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Legalized sports betting has help a wide range of states fund vital social programs. This is vital to preserving state money needed to boost economic growth. This must be prioritized. Poverty is a silent killer. FTC Regulations don't support this as they send ppl to the black market

You're confusing two separate problems and calling it a solution. Yes, poverty kills—but you've just defended a system that *creates* poverty for the people playing. States made $1.7 billion in sports betting revenue last year. Meanwhile, problem gambling costs the economy $119 billion annually in lost productivity, crime, and treatment. That's not "funding vital programs"—that's running a poverty tax on the desperate and calling it fiscal policy. The poor don't need states *taking their money back* through betting; they need actual wages and infrastructure. And the black market argument? Laughable. Legalization didn't eliminate underground betting—it just gave states a cut while addiction rates climbed. Here's the real question: if sports betting is so vital to funding schools and roads, why were those programs functioning before 2018?