I've found myself getting less interested in sports at all because of how pervasive sports betting has gotten. The announcers are always talking about odds and shilling gambling company sponsors, which is annoying and makes me not want to watch the games.
Americans increasingly see legal sports betting as a bad thing for society
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Re: Americans increasingly see legal sports betting as a bad thing for society
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>they ban you from the platform Use a respectable platform that doesn't do that then.
Are you familiar with any? I know people who bet on sports for a living and one of their biggest operational challenges is keeping accounts unbanned long enough to make consistent income.
Polymarket.
Re: Americans increasingly see legal sports betting as a bad thing for society
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>they ban you from the platform Use a respectable platform that doesn't do that then.
There's no such thing. The house always wins or the business collapses.
Yet, Polymarket exists where no one takes a cut* as it all happens on a blockchain.
*there are small gas fees for sending transactions on the blockchain
Re: Americans increasingly see legal sports betting as a bad thing for society
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> And even though gambling is generally immoral, it does not infringe on anyone else's God-given rights and has no business being made illegal. Neither does smoking, but we still limit the types of advertisements cigarette companies can make. Gambling is ultimately a predatory business that serves to separate people susceptible to addiction from their money.
> Neither does smoking It absolutely does, and the number of people that died from second hand smoke is awful. It doesn't make sport gambling adverts right, but it wasn't a great example.
In a similar vein, many people close to gamblers suffer serious consequences from the addiction.
Re: Americans increasingly see legal sports betting as a bad thing for society
#55Sports betting once its in it's never leaving.
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#56I left my home country over 10 years ago, and ever since I've travelled back once every 1 or 2 years. Since 4-5 years ago I started to notice these betting houses cropping up where my family and friends live. They are impossible to miss, with big pictures of different sports and no windows. The most important thing to notice is where these place are and are not. They proliferate in working class and less well off nei…
> while they tend to be absent from more affluent ones. It’s not that they don’t want to be, it’s that affluent neighborhoods tend to keep things that are considered “low class” out of them. The only Safeway in my city that doesn’t sell lottery tickets is the one in the most affluent neighborhood.
I bet the better off do gamble on the financial markets though
Re: Americans increasingly see legal sports betting as a bad thing for society
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> Neither does smoking It absolutely does, and the number of people that died from second hand smoke is awful. It doesn't make sport gambling adverts right, but it wasn't a great example.
In a similar vein, many people close to gamblers suffer serious consequences from the addiction.
Indeed. Gambling impacts the family when they spend other people's money.
We have every right to ban things that are abusive to society.
Re: Americans increasingly see legal sports betting as a bad thing for society
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Guilt by association: If, e.g., violence is a problem, then one needs to deal with the violence. In general, law-abiding citizens are—and should—be free to congregate and partake in their bad habits wherever they please. And even though gambling is generally immoral, it does not infringe on anyone else's God-given rights and has no business being made illegal. Gambling is emphasized above to emphasize we are talking…
> it does not infringe on anyone else's God-given rights Gamblers have lost their homes as a result of their addiction, I think that impact on their families counts for something.
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Re: Americans increasingly see legal sports betting as a bad thing for society
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> It could be banned. Would that stop it? Probably not. Was not that big of a thing 15 years ago. The goal of a ban is not to reduce the consumption to 0, but try to lower it a significant amount. Although, since people are generally aware of it and participated in it, it might not be that easy to go back to beforetimes.
It doesn't have to be a prohibition either. Advertising could be banned. Branding could be controlled so it isn't appealing (Provider 1, Provider 2, etc). Parlay bets and "innovations" (which burn customer money 10 times faster) could be restricted. The "concierge" service that preys on the big spending addicts could be regulated/erased. That's the sort of ban that actually works for society, because it is strongly f…
The other regulation would be acredited gambler thresholds, that limits how much an individual can bet, based on some formula that accounts for a person's income and net worth. You're just not allowed to gamble more than a third of what you legally earned last paycheck or whatever.
Re: Americans increasingly see legal sports betting as a bad thing for society
#60For anybody suffering from a gambling addiction, Gamblers Anonymous is a valuable resource.