[lmm]

Do you think that's better or worse than an entirely shuttered high street? Why?

[shermantanktop]

Those are the choices? I hope not.

The forces that made those shops appear and made the greengrocers disappear are not natural, inevitable, and foolish to resist. They are just laws, laws that permitted some things and discouraged others, taxed some things and subsidized others.

[Podrod]

Because the gambling industry is a parasite.