The rising human cost of sports betting
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The rising human cost of sports betting
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#2I’m glad to see a report on this - I hate to see the NFL actively promoting gambling with their biggest stars lining up for the commercials. I’m sure in their eyes it will “promote” the game but it will ruin the lives of many. My grandfather had a gambling problem and was an easy mark in his latter years - something like this would have been a dark pit of cyclical losses and broken relationships
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#4I’m glad to see a report on this - I hate to see the NFL actively promoting gambling with their biggest stars lining up for the commercials. I’m sure in their eyes it will “promote” the game but it will ruin the lives of many. My grandfather had a gambling problem and was an easy mark in his latter years - something like this would have been a dark pit of cyclical losses and broken relationships
agree - I suspect that people who have not seen a full, social gambling disease to its real extent, do not appreciate the depth of its impacts on everyone involved.
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#5The messages tennis players receive after losses from gamblers are vile.
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#6What an oddly written article. So Delany, the flagship character in the narrative, bet a bit of money and then his wife caught him so he stopped. Is he the best example they could have found? Sports betting and gambling in general is incredibly destructive and unbelievably difficult to kick for full-on addicts. Gambling addiction is no joke.
For some far more compelling journalism on the terrible consequences of gambling addiction I recommend this ABC Australia article on Australian pokies (that's "slot machines" if you're American, "fruit machines" if you're British).
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-07-26/widow-of-addict-who-t...
Or this SMH article of various peoples' stories
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/i-wanted-to-be-caught-in...
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#7I’m glad to see a report on this - I hate to see the NFL actively promoting gambling with their biggest stars lining up for the commercials. I’m sure in their eyes it will “promote” the game but it will ruin the lives of many. My grandfather had a gambling problem and was an easy mark in his latter years - something like this would have been a dark pit of cyclical losses and broken relationships
I agree but also wish that a similar sentiment was applied to modern investment strategies.
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#8Promotion of gambling should be likened to promotion of cigarettes. It should be illegal to advertise gambling, but I don't think it should be outlawed to gamble. People should be able to choose how they live their lives, but we should do all that we can to prevent mass manipulation through adverts in industries that are known to be harmful.
I also think that alcohol and e-cig advertising should be outlawed as well.
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#9Gambling is like drug use, some people are clearly addicted to it and will ruin their lives over it.
How does society respond to this fact? War on drugs, war on gambling, etc.
Hmmmmm
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#10I’m glad to see a report on this - I hate to see the NFL actively promoting gambling with their biggest stars lining up for the commercials. I’m sure in their eyes it will “promote” the game but it will ruin the lives of many. My grandfather had a gambling problem and was an easy mark in his latter years - something like this would have been a dark pit of cyclical losses and broken relationships
This is interesting because legalized gambling is the perfect example of the discrepancy between individual autonomy in theory versus practice.