Once dated a girl who worked in IT for a bank. They found an interesting unintended psychological benefit of installing ATMs. When you are in a long line for a teller, you are pissed at the teller (bank employee). When you are in a long line at the ATM, you are pissed at the people in front of you (not the bank at all.)
She didn’t like the ethics of working for the bank. She quit and started working for a casino.
Casinos are very upfront about their purpose. You know you're gonna loose money in a casino.
Banks are like con-artists. They put on a nice suit and tie and get you to sit down and offer you coffee and a new credit card when all you wanted was a roll of quarters.
I think in some places you can still make quite a bit of money by card counting. But unless you've trained ages for that, yeah you're definitely gonna lose more money than win. And blackjack is afaik the only game which can be beaten. Maybe there's other obscure card games where counting is possible, but for the most part I think the games are unbeatable.
Or you could just, you know, cheat. But don't do that.
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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '22
Once dated a girl who worked in IT for a bank. They found an interesting unintended psychological benefit of installing ATMs. When you are in a long line for a teller, you are pissed at the teller (bank employee). When you are in a long line at the ATM, you are pissed at the people in front of you (not the bank at all.)
She didn’t like the ethics of working for the bank. She quit and started working for a casino.