Young men face high risk for gambling addiction as sports betting surges:experts

I think there are subgroups of people that get caught up in certain routines they then have a hard time exiting. Drugs increase that risk but even here different people are vulnerable to different things. A good friend of mine told me with a straight face that his doctor explained to him that his BMI is in the "you are eating yourself to death" region. He told me this over refilling his glass of coca cola.

At the same time the bankster i know is still in the process of winning both capitalism and hedonism. I think it is likely more about how you manage your own weaknesses. One of them wont do this till he needs judicial/medical intervention.

edit: Never tried cocaine or heroin btw and had a rather easy time loosing weight. But i am very confident about the outcome of those two people. One has given up while the other knows he cant trust himself with this stuff, has planed and is acting accordingly and is able to grind through very unpleasant stuff.

There is also an argument to be made that actual gambling has less of a negative social impact.

Having been bored during the pandemic and gotten myself some gambling tokens at a brokerage site it turned out that i almost kinda funded some pretty severe human rights violations. Drones dropping grenades and mortar shells on indigenous people with bow and arrow type of stuff https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSf3268tAbg

Maybe check your portfolio for Freeport-McMoRan

Funnily enough, the youtuber that made the video also had his house fire bombed by organized crime for reporting on Australias gambling industry.

edit: Picture of drone in question https://twitter.com/jmscaronte/status/1426514097617752066

That reminds me of a book quote I saw today, reproduced within another work about financial fraud. ("Lying for Money".)

> For the most part, it was based on two simple truths: first, that a majority of the richest one percent of Americans are closet degenerate gamblers, who can't withstand the temptation to keep rolling the dice again and again, even if they know the dice are loaded against them; and, second, that contrary to previous assumptions, young men and women who possess the collective social graces of a herd of sex-crazed water buffalo and have an intelligence quotient in the range of Forrest Gump on three hits of acid, can be taught to sound like Wall Street wizards [...]

-- The Wolf of Wall Street

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Relentless petitions, one state at a time. I'll never forget the door to door and being approached in parking lots to sign petitions to get legal gambling on the ballot.