From the Ludvig von Mises Institute:
In Canada, government-owned and run casinos made a mess of the true entertainment value created by casinos in a competitive free market. The government-owned casinos of Ontario claim to be the “peoples’” factors of production. But anyone with experience in real casinos can only see this as a pathetic joke.
I realized this on a recent visit to Niagara Falls, Canada. The town had two government-owned casinos, five minutes apart. The design of the casinos was the same with no theme and no real difference in games and services provided. The first casino is called the Niagara Casino, and the second is called the Niagara Fallsview Casino.
Many anti-capitalists argue that capitalism is only concerned about money and ignores things such as beauty and creativity. The truth of socialism is on display with these two casinos.
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He may need to do some better research. The canadian casinos are government OWNED - not run. The OLGC hired Falls Management Company to operate the casinos, where many managers have worked in Las Vegas or other casino experience.
However, the government does place some restrictions on what the casino can and can’t do (for example number of hotel rooms a casino can have).
Regardless of who owns or runs the casinos, he is right that we just don’t stack up well against the Las Vegas casinos. Whenever the government is involved, it is bound to get messed up somehow.