Children as young as 11 tempted to try betting after being ‘flooded’ by celebrity endorsement
Children as young as 11 tempted to try betting after being ‘flooded’ by celebrity endorsement
Fuck all celebrities and athletes that promote their fans into harmful behavior. It s not like you don't know what you're doing. You know, you just don't care because someone is dangling money in front of your eyes
I'm curious what hooks people with gambling. Trying to prevent exposure feels like security through obscurity.
To me gambling is boring but that's not helpful for people vulnerable to its hooks.
The "exposure" has been every mobile and multiplayer game for the last 15 years being loaded with it.
It's no surprise that they eventually start gambling with real money. It's like having adverts for BetFred in between episodes of Bluey.
Sure, but how does that relate to my comment regarding hooks?
I understand exposure. I'm not disputing that that's a problem. Like, no shit, priming children to gamble is bad. I assumed that didn't need stating.
What I'm interested in is what specifically about gambling is it that appeals to or targets those susceptible to it. I am not susceptible and find it actively boring so I was hoping to get some other perspectives to better understand that side of the issue.
Edited to add some clarity because my question came off as snarky. I feel like we need the opposite of sarcasm tags on here - something to say "sincere" or "actual question, not being a dick, honest".
a few different reasons, some get a thrill from the risk (similar to people who do physically dangerous things like bungee jumping), some are desperate for money, some see it as a get-rich-quick thing
to me, it's a tax on hope
I was in Chess Club at school (I know, I know, quite the jock!). We played chess. Then we got bored of chess and played backgammon. And backgammon without a bet is dull, so we started gambling. Then gambling became the point of playing. Then we moved on to poker.
I remember one poker hand. The deck was made up of about five different packs of cards. Jokers, black twos, one-eyed jacks, bedside queens, and suicide kings were all wild. I ended up with a hand of five aces. Two were real aces, three were wild cards. I had to raise. I mean, how can you not raise with five aces? What is the point of playing poker if you don’t raise with five aces?
Sadly, two other people also had five aces and one of them had three real aces and only two wild cards so they won the hand.
I lost £20 on that single hand and hated every single moment of playing it because somehow I knew, deep down, that I was going to lose. That was a lot of money for me back then and there were other, far better things I could have dropped it on - LPs were about £5 back then, video games £10.
But, it was a great early lesson on the ‘gotta keep going’ mindset of the gambler combined with the certainty that I was going to lose my money. I’m glad it happened, despite the short term remorse I felt immediately afterwards.
The problem with every gambler I know is they keep track of how much they've won but not how much they've spent.
Age checks to "protect the children" from porno, nothing done for gambling.
Sinful and silly, but their parents are probably the same so what guidance could they have besides the wrong kind.
Sinful?
I find it crazy to think these are things real people think, like I always thought it was just Ned Flanders that would consider card games to be sinful and yet here we are.
Saw a few comments like it when Balatro came out. What's next, uno is sent by the devil to corrupt the youth? Although there is probably more of an argument for that because its a good example of taking an existing card game (crazy eights) and then printing a proprietary deck and charging 10 times as much for it.
All the guidance from like, schools, where they're taught stuff? Hopefully not that it's "sinful" but the realities of gambling instead.
But if someone doesn't tell you it's morally wrong to take advantage of fools/disturbed individuals that might be putting their whole life savings on red or black (and that you should only reap where you sow and not be greedy in general) and endangering not only themselves but also their families, how are we truly gonna convince someone in a to restrain themselves, specially if they're in a position of comparative power?
Advertising gambling should be illegal
This
They've legalized the shit out of it everywhere and gambling companies jumped on it and now people are wondering where it all went wrong
Politicians are the worst
Quite frankly, gambling should be culled kind of like tobacco (although maybe not that harsh). I think they should ban large gambling companies from operating here. Betting shops are fine if they're independently owned