Topic: Is gambling a waste of time and money? - page 2. (Read 227 times)

Rigged matches certainly happen, but I'm not that knowledgeable to know much details. There are multiple times that the match I was considering "safe" doesn't have the outcome I was anticipating, and sometimes it's ridiculous too. I remember it was a match where Olympiakos lost to Panserraikos, in the Greek Super League. There's no way in hell they lost to Panserraikos, unless it was fixed, or all of their players had a brainfreeze for the whole match.

I usually bet on the weekends, from Friday to Sunday, I can afford betting on more matches or with higher amounts, or both, however, I don't want to be bashing my head when I lose, because it'll happen eventually, and it would suck losing $100's when this money could have gone for the electricity bills etc. Playing on the safer side is much better, and more entertaining, you have peace of mind.

It all depends on your perspective and how you take things. You don't have to be practical at all times.
Talking about responsible gamblers, if they are gambling then it means that they already have an emergency fund in place.
In that case, why would they deposit more in their emergency fund while they can use some spare cash to fulfill their wish to gamble.
If they are indeed having fun while gambling it contributes to their happy life.
So yeah, gambling is not a waste of time and money for responsible gamblers.

When people buy plane tickets, pay for hotels and go sightseeing, aren't they wasting time and money? Will the money they spent when buying plane tickets come back? The answer is obvious: the money people used to buy plane tickets will not come back, the money people spend to pay for TV to watch movies will not come back, when people buy beers the money will not come back, people use the money to have fun and gambling is a form of entertainment and not an investment. In other words, taking $100 to buy beer and taking $100 to play at a casino should be seen in the same way. When a person takes $100 to buy beer, they know that the $100 will not come back, so they should look at gambling in the same way.

people who have never gambled or seen gambling bad might say something like that. gambling in the eyes of some people is more of an activity that has a negative impact.
but for those who have gambled and can control their gambling, may not feel that they are wasting their money and time just to get pleasure from gambling games. As long as we allocate less of what we get to gamble, then there will be no pressure for the time and money we use to gamble.

The truth is that if someone have not be having winning from gambling or have not won from gambling before, I believe they will view it as waste of money and time but as for those who have lucky before and won big amount of money from gambling and also those gamblers that due win time to time they will not view it and waste of money and time because people are achieving their aim or they have achieved their aim before from gambling .so for me i feel gambling is not waste of time and waste of money because I won some reasonable amount of money from gambling before and I do won some little amount time to time. But truth is that anything someone is doing and it not seeing good results of it definitely it will be waste of time and the others resources someone is using for that particular thing.

The bolded part is where most people make the mistake when gambling. They 100% know in their heads that the sports team they are about to bet a house on is going to win, but then that team that they were so confident in loses and they are now ready to commit suicide.

People aren't considering the fact that sports can be rigged, injuries can happen, a guy can get ejected from the game, or whatever. You're not factoring in random bs. SO why risk big? Keep betting small and growing your money slowly, if you lose then you still have money left to rebuild from that loss.

So many people take gambling as a waste of money and energy, but as for me, gambling is not a waste, because that's where a lot of people benefit in terms of putting food on their table; but the only thing that I didn't want in gambling is that I don't want anything that can make gambling become addictive to me, because it is very dangerous at times when gambling becomes addictive for a person.

Furthermore, another meaning of gambling is that it is very important for anyone who has an interest in gambling should not allow themselves to become addicted, because at that moment it will be out of control.

If you're looking at an indirect answer, this is the most correct. It's something you enjoy, but ultimately costs money, like pretty much everything in this world, then why should we consider it a waste of time and money? The direct answer, provided that we don't take into account if we enjoy it or it satisfies us, it's a complete waste of both.

As yahoo62278 already mentioned, if you're wasting trivial amounts of money in which your livelihood depend on, or it's your savings/college fund etc. you name it, then you're a complete moron. If however, you're spending a small fraction of your salary, which you can afford to spend, then I don't see an issue.

Gambling  is a waste of time and money when we consider it as a means to get rich or find success from it ,  but if we consider it as a means of entertainment or responsible gambling then it cannot be called a waste. It can be said that it all depends on our behavior, do not blame gambling or anything if we lose all our money just because of greed, because of our ignorance.

Gambling , investing, trading...are just means and the results will depend on how we use them , don't blame them when we don't get the desired results . There are many investors , traders who lose money and even go bankrupt, should they blame investing and trading for wasting their time and money ? Or is it their ignorance and greed that causes it ?

Gambling is entertainment so yeah it will be considered as waste of money for those who can't get the idea of it. We can compare it with buying tickets for a concert or cinema and yeah it is a waste of time and money right? Still, people love it and why those critics never blame those especially media for many reasons including the religion. It is there to guide the people but when it becomes extreme belief people just see it as taboo and the trend keeps on continuing for centuries while the media and others considered as taboo in the past becomes a normal thing now.

If you are gambling your bill money, rent money, kids college fund, or something else along those lines then you're basically a moron. You have taken entertainment and turned it into addiction. You don't have to be betting a house everytime you want to gamble.

As far as a waste of time, if you are doing it in small increments to have fun with extra money, how are you wasting time? You may not win much, but you don't lose much either. Just how I look at it.

You're not wasting money and time on something that satisfies you; it's similar to watching a concert; you feel alive, and feeling the joy is priceless; it adds years to your life; responsible gamblers don't mind spending and losing as long as they enjoy the experience.
And its not always losing; there are times that you could win some money, and that money you could use for another session.

It's a waste of time and money for some but a form of entertainment for others. I've heard many times that playing football, playing video games and overall, fun activities are a waste of time but I don't agree with them because many people have turned their hobbies and entertainment into a very profitable business.

If you are an irresponsible gambler, then gambling can be a waste of time, money and health. If you are a responsible gambler and you want to have fun after a stressful workday, then there is nothing wrong with gambling, it's not a waste of time if it helps you with mental stress. I personally have fun when I gamble and gambling helped me during my stressful days. For me, it wasn't a waste of time but a huge relief.

And I will verify this that is true that gambling is a place to waste money and time, and you just realized today? You are aware of it.
Basically gambling is an entertainment venue and usually the entertainment place takes time and also takes money and you must understand this from the beginning of gambling, it is the price that needs to be paid to get fun in gambling.

There are many people who are deliberately dating money here by gambling but they are able to control themselves are a good thing and it is not a problem, so the time and money used is a capital he is in an effort to get his goal in gambling.

It depends on how you look at it, we have been debating about those individuals who says that they play to have some fun and be entertained. So if that is the case, then for them it's not a waste of time and money as obviously for them it's another form or recreation, and they believed that they are doing it responsibly. And definitely, we wanted to feel the thrill and the rush that gambling gives to us.

On the other hand, it become a problem, if we gamble what we can afford to lose, borrowing money just to continue to gamble even if we lose a lot of money already, and then that feeling of guilt after losing. So if we look at this scenario, then it's not only a waste of money and time, but you will have a big problem in the end. There should be balance or at least find something in the middle ground.

Replace gambling with: playing computer games, going to a club dancing, having sex, biking, going to the gym.
All cost money (yup some of us use condoms), all are taking time but you have fun doing it, so if you have fun gambling why should that be different?


I would argue that the restaurant is a bit different than the others since you eat, a thing you would have to do anyhow, so despite the difference in price it's still something you would have done in order to keep living, but yeah, I don't understand why everyone keeps focusing on the fiances and not on the entertainment aspect of it.

Gambling is a lot of things to a lot of persons. It is a waste of time and money to some people, while there are others who surely have a different opinion of it. Not all the opinions concerning gambling is correct.

Even when gambling is regarded as something fun there are times when you could waste money on having fun that is why you have to also watch and put a limit to how much you have fun so that you do not squander and spend money that you should be saving or investing on having fun.

Hmm, my friend, responsible gambling is always recommended, but it does not mean that a responsible gambler will be free from defeat because after all they still play and play using money as usual, but what makes it different here is when you become a responsible gambler, you will not lose too much money like gamblers who are already addicted because when you are responsible, it means there will be no emotions involved and that is the reason why responsible gambling is always recommended, because in most cases, emotions and the inability to accept defeat are what make gamblers lose more and more money. I understand that not getting involved in gambling is much better because then you will not lose any money at all, but after all this is a choice and gambling is indeed a risky activity, I cannot fully consider gambling as a place to waste money because my principle is to exchange money for the pleasure that I get through the sensation when I play.

How about those dollars you spent on a movie or eating in a restaurant? You spent money on these; you should have added it to your emergency funds.
If you're gambling with allocated funds, it means an excess of funds that you decide to allocate in gambling for fun with a chance to make a profit. You should not let others or blame yourself if you spend money on gambling to entertain yourself and you lose in the game.

life presents to us choices and it is left for us to choose what works for us and determine what we want to do with it. there are people that believe that doing a full time work whereby you work for government is a total waste of time. there is other that believe that salary is what is paid to workers so they can remain enslaved to the person they are working for. do you because of that view and conclude that working for someone is bad when in the real sense there are good paying jobs available for grab?

for those that are hoping that through gambling, hey can redeem themselves from poverty or want to depend on gambling for generating all their income, then they might just be wasting their time but for those that look at it as a source of fun or that only play games that they are highly certain of the outcome, it is totally false and inappropriate to call that a waste of time. you can do the right thing the wrong way while another can the same thing and get a better result from that. your result alone is not alone to make a complete conclusion on that. gambling can be a thing that brings excitement, it can be a waste of time and can as well be the route of out poverty, whatever it is to you is dependent on how you are going about it and it is all in your hands to change things around and gain from it rather than losing and harming yourself from it.