It’s also ruining sports, the advertising is everywhere and extremely tacky, while contributing to the financial ruin of the poorest in society. If I see another HollywoodBets advert I will
Specifically, for every $1 spent on betting, households put $2 less into investment accounts. States see big increases in the risk of overdrafting a bank account or maxing out a credit card. These effects are strongest among already precarious households.
Fake society with fake finance. This is terrible.
Looking specifically at online sports gambling, they find that legalization increases the risk that a household goes bankrupt by 25 to 30 percent, and increases debt delinquency. These problems seem to concentrate among young men living in low-income counties—further evidence that those most hurt by sports gambling are the least well-off.
Yeah definitely. I see it all the time with soccer/football.
Matsuzawa and Arnesen extend this, finding that in states where sports betting is legal, the effect is even bigger. They estimate that legal sports betting leads to a roughly 9 percent increase in intimate-partner violence.
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Legalization isn’t yielding many benefits, either. Tax revenue—one of the major justifications for legalization—has been anemic, with all 38 legal states combined making only about $500 million from it a quarter, less than alcohol, tobacco, or marijuana
Of course, these gambling operations are great at avoiding taxes, setting up their operation to be off shore on official paperwork, in office buildings that don’t exist.
But some fairweather leftists that by their own admission despise most people enjoy the corporate sports gambling treats so fuck you, they got theirs.
I forget the exact stats on it, but gambling addiction is especially destructive to people’s lives even compared with other major addictions. Also, on a petty treat-fiend note, it has made sports so much fucking shittier.
Also, on a petty treat-fiend note, it has made sports so much fucking shittier.
Any restrictions on the treats whatsover is wrong and bad because Prohibition and everything can be compared to Prohibition so regulations bad in general. I am very leftist.
This would’ve been alright if you still had to like go to an official to place bets. The problem is there’s a fucking casino in your pocket now and they’ve been given free reign to advertise to everyone on everything
nah, any bookie or house or casino needs to go. There shouldn’t be any “officials” allowed to take bets whatsoever, as this leads to gambling industry. Small scale bets between individuals is fine, but once a house is involved and taking a cut it’s crossed the line
i mean i agree, obviously gambling is inherently predatory when there’s a house.
my thought is mostly that the concept of “legalizing sports betting” is one thing, while legalizing pocket casinos and smashing you across the head with advertising is another.
like hell, at least if you had to go to a bookie it’s something to do, you’re getting out of the fucking house. this is just sitting on your ass and pissing your money away without even a walk outside to speak of. it’s bleak
I didn’t expect a struggle session or treat defending in a thread about international corporate-scale fucking sports gambling.
What is even left to be leftist about if someone is totally fine with ever-growing sports gambling conglomerates destroying the livelihoods (and even the lives) of individuals and everyone around them while performing one of the most direct poor-to-rich wealth transfers there is?
it’s driving me nuts lol. sorry to debatelord but clearly people learned that drug prohibition doesn’t work (true) and are drawing a complete false equivalency here.
There’s a consistency at its core: “making something illegal doesn’t make it impossible, therefore nothing should be illegal, especially if it’s a treat I like.”
i have to say i get the urge cause I’m an alcoholic and a smoker but I recognise in a utopian view of the future those things are hopefully going away lol. it’s a knee jerk reactionary urge that ppl need to learn to recognise and fight in themselves
I feel the same way.
I have my own vices, and it would be particularly selfish of me to believe that because they’re my vices that they aren’t harmful ones and everyone should be into mine.
making gambling illegal is harm reduction.
Lmao, I just started listening to this and they immediately compare it to legalizing heroin and giving control of the heroin industry to tobacco companies, with the implication that that would obviously be incredibly bad.
Turns out half the people in this thread think that that’s a great idea actually.
Oh my God then they started talking about self-identified socialists now having a libertarian streak and thinking restrictions on people’s actions by a Nanny State are bad.
citations needed don’t miss
Oh my God then they started talking about self-identified socialists now having a libertarian streak and thinking restrictions on people’s actions by a Nanny State are bad.
Many such cases, including on Hexbear. Fucks’ sake, I once had an ugly prolonged knock-down drag-out posting fight with some asshole that insisted they absolutely needed their two-stroke gas powered leaf blower and gave me the full arsenal of “no veggies for dinner, no bedtimes” selfish bullshit talking points all the while.
Yeah, just it felt like deja vu listening to it. It’s like they used a time machine to read this thread before recording their intro.
there’s a good (extremely bleak) trueanon on this ep 209 , also they recommended a book that sounds great addiction by design haven’t read but on my list a while
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
I also saw this. I wonder how much the legal gambling also just opened up pandoras box. I think that a lot of people, especially whales, end up on offshore sites anyways because of better odds and less overall rake. And of course there are also underground sportsbooks still for the biggest players, like Shohei Ohtani’s former interpreter who got caught gambling millions of stolen money this spring.
And also, even in CA there are “fantasy games” (tickpick, underdog, even jake paul is affiliated with one of them) and there are “social gambling” sites that use the “sweepstakes” loophole, such as fliff sportsbook and chumba casino. These ones, you pay money for a “fun currency” and you also get “sweeps cash” that is basically a premium currency on their site that can be gambled for real cash. But even the off shore sites are pretty heavily advertised on social media, such as stake and bovada.
Regardless of the actual mechanisms of gambling that are available in your state, the prevalence of the advertising is nauseating. Draftkings/mgm/fanduel ads are all over sports stadiums. Beyond that though, some channels, especially ESPN, show tons of actual odds during their broadcast alongside an ad for their own platform, espnbet. The massive influx of gambling money is tainting sports overall.
Im glad my favorite sports franchise has yet to take any gambling ads, but still when they have a game on ESPN i have to put up with the odds bullshit, in addition to everything else that is total garbage about that channel.
Also, players themselves are being harassed on the field and online by people blaming them for a bet that didnt hit. Some players even received cash app requests to pay back a bet that they ruined.
I dont think it will be banned in mosr states, but congress should have the power to at least curb the advertising specifically, because that should fall under interstate commerce.
I live in CA, a state that still hosts a lottery, another form of expooitative gambling that should be banned or severely restricted. No need to have slot machines on paper at every gas station and convenience store.
Sports people are more concerning to me than gamers.
Maybe you’re on to something. When’s the last time
burned down a city block over the outcome of a MOBA match?
I think the question to ask about this is why it’s such a unique problem to america. Much like guns.
Here in the UK 15% of men do online gambling and 4% of women. Ok so the top line of data says that 40% of people do gambling but this is only because of scratchcards at petrol stations. When you remove these it drops to 15 and 4.
Why is this situation so significantly worse in america? What is unique about american society and culture that causes 33% of americans to be betting on sports, let alone other stuff?
The UK is going to get a lot worse with all the betting advertising in football. Pretty much every second Premier League team has a betting sponsor at the moment. The marketing campaign has intensified and I can see those statistics doubling within the next few years.
I wonder if it’s a case of them not really having culturally/socially adjusted to it like everyone else has. .
That and there’s also a lot more sports going on that are insanely popular/that people are engaged with. Here it’s mostly just football and horses. There its NFL, NBA, NHL, MLB, NCAA and to a lesser extent: MLS, WNBA and NASCAR.
Supreme court struck down a law banning sports gambling in 2018 on the logic that “illegal gambling is already happening, might as well make it legal and cut out the criminals!”. The now-legal betting companies started pushing a non-stop torrent of pro-gambling ads immediately.
Australia is also pretty bad, see below:
“illegal gambling is already happening, might as well make it legal and cut out the criminals!”
That SAME FUCKING TAKE is in THIS THREAD, RIGHT NOW.
So is the problem marketing?
I don’t know what differences lie in the marketing that is allowed here vs US.
I think the apps originated in silicon valley, so they had tons of money behind them that was willing to make a marketing push. Ads for them were already present as early as 2015 IIRC, even when they were still technically illegal, but nobody got arrested that I know of.
Our brains our broken. I don’t know how else to put it. They turn us into husks. Myself included.
Its also a major issue elsewhere. Australia for example has a pretty horrific gambling problem and the government rolled back promises to ban gambling advertising.
“Capitalism with American Characteristics” is a disease that is poisoning every part of society. I believe it breeds desperation and a “fuck it” attitude and drives people to reckless behavior, aggression, and distrust of others.
I’m not immune. I kind of hate most people, especially here. Society sucks, most people suck.
I kind of hate most people, especially here. Society sucks, most people suck.
Considering your already-stated complete apathy toward other people’s suffering because you want unmitigated and unregulated sports gambling because you enjoy it and fuck everyone else you got yours, you’re voluntarily contributing to that “society sucks” problem here.
Feel like making illegal doesn’t necessarily solve the problem either. Best thing to do would be banning advertising and heavily regulating apps - no notifications etc.
Plenty of places in the world where gambling industries are banned, and it works pretty well.
The problem doesn’t need to be 100% solved to at least be mitigated.
There’s a material reason why Burgerland has a staggeringly higher rate of gambling addiction than countries with more regulations and restrictions, “solved” or not.
making gambling illegal is harm reduction actually. it’s not a direct equivalency with drugs. you can make moonshine in your bathtub without detection, the govt has the power to shut down corporate gambling operations and I would bet ;) that most customers won’t bother moving to the underground option. (which can also be shut down much more easily than a drug ring) it is harm reduction. I don’t know why so many people feel the need to defend its existence here.
Not really defending its existence, more trying to figure out what the best solution is.
I think you have a good point though.
I mean banning it like it was what, only a decade ago? That’s clearly the best solution. Friendly wagers over the local game don’t cause a mass transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich, FanDuel does
According to “fuck you, got mine” misanthropic fairweather leftists in this thread, if making something illegal doesn’t make it go away 100%, it should be completely legal, which includes the massive tech corporation shit that has already made watching professional sports even worse than before and more a vehicle for gambling than for enjoying the games for their own sake.
yeah sorry I didn’t think that was your intention but others in the thread are doing it from what’s clearly a latent libertarian mindset.
And the ads are fucking everywhere. Entire train stations with every square inch of advertising space plastered with Jamie Foxx or whatever washed up scumbag piece of shit actor they could find.
Gambling is only cool when it’s largely illegal
legalizing it is fine IMO, it’s probably better than black market gambling. but the ads being everywhere is terrible. advertising cigarettes on tv is illegal, should be the same for gambling
Death to America
haven’t watched the video, but right now in Brazil legalized sports gambling is such a menace that its driving a substantial portion of the poorest into debt. influencer driven online scams are one thing, but sports gambling goes to the heart of what little community we have left via sports.
libertarian brain claims another victim
it’s so prevalent in american leftists lol
Marketing should be punishable by death
For profit sports betting operations should absolutely not be legal. Gambling on your smart phone, which is already an addicting dopamine machine, should absolutely not be legal.
Sports should be illegal. Why? For sustainability. Athletes eat like 4x as much as a normal person. That’s a lot of fucking food. And what for? So they can run or throw a ball? Who the fuck cares the planet is dying
4 replies taking this obvious joke at least semi seriously lol i love this website
obvious joke
You clearly haven’t been here long if you think this is obviously a joke
it’s the best kind of joke, a half joke
I’d bet it’s higher
fair enough lol i did spend a few minutes deciding
I think the chartered flights and massive construction projects are probably a bit worse.
You gotta remember they, they dont just run and throw balls. Sometimes they kick or hit the balls. And most importantly, they all go shower together afterwards with their beefy sweaty shiny bodies
beefy sweaty shiny bodies
see, that’s another point, to save the earth we need to cut beef production!
There are also many non athletes who eat 4x the normal amount
You’re right and i wish to restrict that as well
I at least think it’s reasonable to tell people to take one serving and keep it moving and come back for seconds if they want them but we’re not supposed to do that. So im just perma stressed that these kids are gonna take “all you can eat” as a challenge and I’ll run out of food every night because I can’t just make infinite food and waste the excess
A vegan athlete has a smaller {water, land use, carbon} footprint than a meat eater who lays around all day.
and? a vegan athlete will still use 10x the calories and nutrition of a non athlete
Hard agree, sports are for children.
