You see the trick is to fill the entire justice system with stooges who won’t prosecute you for anything. Then everything is legal.

It takes constant effort to push back against objective reality. If the pressure relents they might slide back into seeing the world a little closer to what it is.

To explain; they think any form of consequences for bad behaviour is cancel culture and cancel culture is a purely left thing and is evil and wrong because freedom of speech and because it’s something the left does. So anyone who advocates for consequences for a company’s actions must be a leftist. It’s a very common thing with American right wing propaganda. I have seen it way too often.

Have you read his book? If not good because it’ll kill some of your brain cells if you do. But there’s nothing inherently wrong with writing a bad book. Most writers first book won’t be great but shadow of the conquer has more problems than just being bad. In it the main character a former genocidal, mass murdering, serial rapist does nothing to redeem himself but gets forgiven anyhow by all the rape victims who got pregnant from the involuntary intercourse because they’re so happy with their kids.

It has some troubling attitudes towards a great many things (mainly women) and those attitudes are presented by the book as self evident and true. I find it very telling of the man who wrote it.

The answer is a combination of corruption and regulatory capture. It started with sports betting. They were able (through extensive lobbing) to convince the government and the regulatory bodies that sports betting should have looser rules than regular gambling. This enabled them to advertise and expand far more aggressively. This caused a massive gold rush of sports betting companies looking to take in some easy money.

There were lawsuits of course but they just set legal precedent that weakened gambling regulations and narrowed what the government could call gambling. Simultaneously a big boom of retail investment apps and sites showed that there was money to be made in the financial speculation markets. Financial speculation is just another form of gambling so those companies empowered by all that new money put a large portion of it to convincing the government that financial speculation is not gambling and cannot legally be considered such.

This resulted in massive gambling loopholes; now you can call any site or app a financial investment app and you don’t need to worry about any gambling rules. What we get now is the result of effectively completely deregulation gambling. They want you to bet and gamble on everything.