[fastball]

There is a big difference between a gambling addiction and "having some fun".

In the same way that it is not healthy or productive to sit around all day masturbating, it is not healthy or productive to gamble in a casino. This does not require a "workaholic mentality" (which is itself a strange assertion -- can you not enjoy work? If you enjoy it, is it not fun?) to understand. At least with masturbation you're not literally throwing money down the hole.

[Smithalicious]

Yes, there's a big difference between a gambling addiction and "having some fun". But most people who gamble aren't addicted. Just like how some people might be alcoholics, but the vast majority of people in a bar are just going to be people who go there for fun from time to time.

[fastball]

I'd be willing to bet a lot of money that the ratio of addicts to people "just having fun" is much, much higher in an Atlantic City casino than the average bar.

[arcticbull]

Well, Atlantic City has a reputation as a kind of degenerate low-rent Vegas, so it's self-selecting.

[intended]

Fun is emotional and emotions are inherently rational. Healthy and productive are subjective judgements on how someone should live their life and have nothing To do with fun.

The fact that someone enjoys work is happy coincidence for them.

There’s many more people doing that exact same job who don’t have fun doing it- the vast majority of humanity does fun things to make their life worth living.

A small percent of humanity enjoys its work; and a far smaller percent both enjoys their work and makes good Money while doing it.

There’s no substantive foundation on which to discuss “fun” while also tacking on “healthy and productive.”

Fun is essentially irrational.