In Australia here, gambling is a bit of a problem across the country, but the governments make so much tax revenue it is allowed to continue.

I know someone who works for one of the big betting companies here. He writes software that aids in direct targeting of problem gamblers based on their social profiles and anything else they can get their hands on.

Pushing drugs is bad but pushing gambling is totally legal.

Suffice to say I'm not a huge fan of said bloke, I think you're selling your soul to the devil, so to speak.

I hope he is hopeless.

Well ya. When your company's product is a net minus for society then you have to wonder about the ethics of everyone involved. Ya, they're doing it for the bux with little care for the consequences.

I honestly think that the People choosing to work for big tobbaco should be killed. All of them. They purposely push poison onto us.

Seems a bit extreme. I imagine that one could easily extend this logic to apply to almost any group. Anyone making anything but the healthier foods tastier or cheaper. Any innovation that enables laziness. People who build elevators. Pretty much all of IT.

"a buck at the expense of people's lives working for them"

their employees? any source?

I believe that the phrasing made the sentence confusing.

"They have some sociopaths working for them whose focus is purely on making a buck at the expense of consumer's lives"

hmm, makes more sense, thank you. although nicotine is less harmful than cigarettes, the spirit of that comment rings true: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4363846/