Hi everyone, i trust ya all having a great day...
Like the subject of this topic say, its a question i am putting out to you all, as a member of the gambling community, what do you think can be done to reduce the gambling related issues like --
From one
article i was reading this morning, the UK government officially stated that there are more than 409 suicides a year in England which results from gambling problems.
Here is a quote from an
article i read this morning --
On a summer’s day in 2015, Joshua Jones put on his suit and headed to his gleaming office block overlooking the Thames in London.
It was the trainee accountant’s day off, but he was in turmoil after gambling away most of his monthly pay and an annual bonus. He told a friend he needed to “pop into the office”. He took the lift to the top floor of the block in the early evening and jumped to his death. He was 23.
Martin Jones, 72, Joshua’s father, said: “To people who worked with him, he was the life and soul of the party, but he was living a double life as a gambler. He felt despair that he could not control the addiction.”
From the same article, i learnt that --
Liz and Charles Ritchie
(whoever they were before now), founded the
gambling with lives charity organization after their Son,
Jack, took his life in 2017 due to gambling addiction.
Majority in the UK, last year(2021) called on the government of UK to place a
total ban on gambling ads.
Now I do not know if this ban on gambling ads was or has been unforced in the UK, but my question now is, \if the UK goes ahead to enforce the ban on gambling ads in the country, you think this will reduce the number of suicides, and other gambling related problems in the country?
\Do you think banning gambling ads is a good measure for the entire government of the world should enforce? will this really stop people from gambling?
\In your own opinion, what measures do you think is appropriate to take that will help reduce the issues, gambling related problems cause in our society?
Lets discuss.
Gambling is like anything in life, if you do it in small and controlled amounts then you can use it like any other form of entertainment. However there is always going to be a natural trigger in anyones mind that you have lost money and it is painful to lose money, because it can extend into feelings of stupidity and wastefulness. It can also be super easy to spiral out of control when you reach that point and you end up throwing lots of good money after bad in an attempt to recoup it - when the odds against you are static. One potential way to cap runaway losses, which are some of the most extreme scenarios, is to potentially limit a player to $10 at the beginning, then only allow them to double their max deposit every day after that, but also keep a regulator connected to it which says you cannot spend more than your average spend in the last 7 days either.