On people who play poker for a living

[BruinEric]

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What does Disneyland contribute to society?

What does Mattel contribute to society?

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FWIW, Mattel and Disneyland are different than an individual "Pro" Poker player in many ways. One of which would be that each employs thousands of people who use the money they earn there to feed their families, maintain health insurance, and save for retirement.

Furthermore, in correlation to some of the others' points on this thread; both Mattel and Disneyland take raw materials (plastic, ideas, stories) and increase their value through their employees efforts.

I am not making points in this thread to support the original post, but I'm not confident in the correlation between these corporations and an individual poker player.