Bingo and gambling, understand the words.

Bingo and slot machines are words that entered the Portuguese language in the last century. Gambling, however, from the Italian *giocatina* , entered Brazil in the last decades of the 19th century. The word *jogatina* derives from * jogo* (game), but gradually ceased to be considered entertainment, fun, a game, and took on a pejorative meaning. After all, games of chance explicitly demonstrate a fundamental aspect of the market economy, in which labor and capital increasingly depend on forces over which post-globalized man has less and less power. The economy has also become a game of chance, especially in Brazil. And games of chance have become a good business for their owners. The word *azar* (chance/bad luck) comes from the vulgar Arabic *az-zahr *, through the French *assard* , meaning luck, but also lack thereof. In classical Arabic it is *Hazart* , the name of a castle in Palestine where the game of dice is said to have been invented. Whoever bet that the government would lose to bingo won. By a vote of 32 to 31, the Legislature defeated the Executive, and this type of gambling was legalized last week. The senators said no to the government. Some bingo halls had been operating under the protection of the Judiciary, which had granted injunctions against the provisional measure sent to Congress on February 20th of this year. Bingo is a word that comes from the English word bingo , meaning revelry, game, probably formed from binge , meaning disposition towards indulgence, addiction, and bout , meaning struggle, impulse, endeavor. It designates a game in which cards, stones, or electronic signals with numbers and letters are used for combinations. Bingo was prohibited in Brazil for several years until Congress approved its regulation through Law 8,762/93, proposed by former player Zico, when he was Secretary of Sports in the government of Fernando Collor de Mello. The audacious president, deposed by the same Senate that has now legalized bingo, perhaps wanted to create a Las Vegas in these parts. In the animal lottery, the day he won the elections was an upset. The hidden designs of gambling, including the animal lottery, are unfathomable. On the day Rui Barbosa, the Eagle of The Hague, died, the eagle won. Before the tangle of laws, decrees, provisional measures, and injunctions that vetoed or authorized bingo halls, casinos were confined to tourist resorts, facilitating control and revenue collection. Several entities, even religious ones, and sports clubs, especially football clubs, have used bingo to raise funds, raffling off cars and appliances. Such initiatives extend the redeeming mantle of social assistance over bingo, but in general, the meanings point to a pejorative sense. Slot machine and coin purse are words formed from the Vulgar Latin *captiare* , meaning to capture, to seize, and * porta* , from *portare *, meaning to carry, combined with the Swedish *Nickel *, the god of mines who gave his name to the well-known metal, later used to designate coins. The coin purse seemed obsolete among us, since inflation had transformed nickels into the opposite of what Lavoisier's law proclaims: nothing was gained, everything was lost. After the Real Plan, however, the small wallets intended for coins reappeared, and their effigies had more luck than great figures of Brazilian literature, such as Machado de Assis, Cecília Meireles, and Carlos Drummond de Andrade, printed on banknotes that today, combined, wouldn't even pay for a coffee. Information technology modernized bingo, slot machines, and gambling, which became electronic. Gamblers follow the results on television. Gambling immensely harms the poorest, as any amount taken from their meager budgets is significant. In any case, the worst luck isn't for those who gamble, even when they lose. It's for those who earn minimum wage. They always lose.