So gambling is a gateway to gambling? Brilliant analysis there, healthbeat.org
Same energy
This is already a serious problem imo
My counseling practice is geared at queer people so I don’t get a ton of sports gambling types generally but I do get some and the amounts they reveal spending is mind boggling to me. Like 20-30% of income
I have a colleague at a more affluent practice in the city I used to work in that is geared towards “men’s issues” and he sees this far more. We’ve discussed it a few times now. He tends to get more of the bro type
It’s silent too, very often hidden from partners. I increasingly hear about it as a source of stress in relationships too: someone comes in one day and everything was going okay but their shit is blown up because it turns out their brofriend is spending 1800 a week on parlays
Deregulation works!
This type of gambling lose money. If you want the thrill of risking something, rob a bank. Either you win big, or your suffering immediately ends 💀🔫👮♂️
/kidding
Banks don’t hold large amounts of cash anymore.
“large” is relative.
Unless you’re incredibly thorough about totally cleaning out the vault, ATM, every teller drawer, etc. you’re probably not gonna be able to get more than a few 10s of thousands if you’re lucky
But even a few thousand, or hell, even a couple hundred could be huge for a lot of people.
That might be rent for a month or a couple of months when they’re really struggling, what they need to keep their car from getting repo’d so they can get to their job, pay for some badly needed home repairs, medications, etc.
I’m not struggling, but I’m not exactly doing great either, a couple extra thousand bucks on-hand would be amazing for me, and for some people it could be literally life-changing (even life-saving)
'Round my parts, robbers just target the armoured trucks that move money to ATMs.
Are these so-called experts supposed to have me believe that gambling apps designed to get people addicted to their gambling app might be a gateway to gambling addiction?
Australian millennial checking in, when I was young ‘nobody’ my age made bets on sports, like maybe 5% of the population. Gambling ads were heavily regulated as were gaming organizations.
The gambling ads for tipping and online betting and gambling apps have ramped up and online gambling was allowed to flourish with relaxed regulations. Taking us to the current state of affairs where they are unavoidable, and gambling companies are major sponsors of all our sports events.
The current youth now have a huge problem with gambling.
Push back hard if you can on mobile gambling in your neck of the woods, because once the government gets addicted to the revenue and the ‘corporate events’ they are very disinterested in reeling it back.
Brazilian under a similar situation. Gambling and casinos are illegal within the entire country, but in 2018 online gambling/casinos were allowed to run ads everywhere. Every other week there’d be a new betting site throwing ads on every TV channel and tiktok/instagram influencer. Some regulation started showing up last year, people on Bolsa Familia (govt money for people in extreme poverty) were dumping that money straight into the gambling sites, but it’s too little, too late. A significant portion of the political right is now being
bribedlobbied to legalize casinos again, “It’z gun generert jerbs and tworism!!!”
Why limited to young men in new york?
That’s like saying that submerging a young man’s head in water for over five minutes could lead to death.
Because the trend was detected via New York’s helpline.
Oh, just in New York? Whew, I’m safe then.
/s
Online sports betting through apps on your phone is just yet another example of everything sliding toward degeneracy
