Even in the past years when you say gambling people are really negative towards it because of its risk which is true, many people playing it don't admit to their loved ones and friends that they are in a casino and burning their fortunes away because many are negative and instead of a profit they will think that all your money went to a lost
And there are people that become addicted to it that is why many are pretty negative towards gambling I think that is why some gambling facilities and establishments shutdown and gambling become a ban in other countries, I think this is not new and there's no motive needed people to tend to just give all negative sides to gambling and not the positive ones.
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I actually think that this is not necessarily the problem.
The problem with media coverage of gambling is that it's either wildly positive or wildly negative. There are substantial amounts of campaigns that are revolved around glorifying certain aspects of gambling (just think about your national lottery ads on TV).
There are also as you rightfully mentioned an obscene amount of negative coverage. Overall, the media landscape is just sensationalist without reflecting the realities of gambling - it is a form of entertainment that comes with a -EV, and the vast majority of people will never win big or lose big.
The problem with media coverage of gambling is that it's either wildly positive or wildly negative. There are substantial amounts of campaigns that are revolved around glorifying certain aspects of gambling (just think about your national lottery ads on TV).
There are also as you rightfully mentioned an obscene amount of negative coverage. Overall, the media landscape is just sensationalist without reflecting the realities of gambling - it is a form of entertainment that comes with a -EV, and the vast majority of people will never win big or lose big.
As you say, the vast majority of people are losing or barely breaking even with a few big wins. The losers are going to be incredibly frustrated and angry that they lost hard earned money, making them very likely to shout about it to anyone who will listen. They will be leaving negative reviews as revenge, even though all the odds were clearly laid out if they bothered to read the fine print of the terms and conditions. The winners are happy but will be drowned out and people who made nothing have little incentive to write positive reviews about it either.
Because online gambling is not a type of trading. That's a game. Entertainment that you pay for getting entertained. I read somewhere it is statistically proven that only one in 8 gamblers wins on average (online, offline, casinos, etc.) so it's natural that arguments that say online gambling is trash more than those who support it.
Yes, gambling is a game that can entertain people who involve. But most people forget to stop when they already losses some money instead will trying to recover their losses. A few people can win from gambling and make money, but that still attract more people to test their luck. We should treat gambling as what it is and not trying to make money from gambling because the result will be not good for us. We can use other sources of income to make money than from gambling.
I actually think that this is not necessarily the problem.
The problem with media coverage of gambling is that it's either wildly positive or wildly negative. There are substantial amounts of campaigns that are revolved around glorifying certain aspects of gambling (just think about your national lottery ads on TV).
There are also as you rightfully mentioned an obscene amount of negative coverage. Overall, the media landscape is just sensationalist without reflecting the realities of gambling - it is a form of entertainment that comes with a -EV, and the vast majority of people will never win big or lose big.
The problem with media coverage of gambling is that it's either wildly positive or wildly negative. There are substantial amounts of campaigns that are revolved around glorifying certain aspects of gambling (just think about your national lottery ads on TV).
There are also as you rightfully mentioned an obscene amount of negative coverage. Overall, the media landscape is just sensationalist without reflecting the realities of gambling - it is a form of entertainment that comes with a -EV, and the vast majority of people will never win big or lose big.
It is only natural that losers are always being mentioned rather than the winners. There is a thread here about a losers in gambling where they lose a lot of money in gambling. When you talk about gambling, all chance of winning are small compared to losing. Gambling should not be a main solution for tripling your money as it also comes in great risk of losing it all. That is the motive of anti gambling campaign which is to stop many people from losing too much money.
Enlighten those gamblers who already exceeded from their limitations, more people are losing money with uncontrolled addictions,
gamblers who can't avoid to continue playing even the amount of money that they'll spending is no longer dedicated to thier gambling activities.
The chance of losing is far higher than winning but gamblers will continue to take the risk in hope that they'll gonna hit the jackpot
and it will change everything.
It is only natural that losers are always being mentioned rather than the winners. There is a thread here about a losers in gambling where they lose a lot of money in gambling. When you talk about gambling, all chance of winning are small compared to losing. Gambling should not be a main solution for tripling your money as it also comes in great risk of losing it all. That is the motive of anti gambling campaign which is to stop many people from losing too much money.
Because online gambling is not a type of trading. That's a game. Entertainment that you pay for getting entertained. I read somewhere it is statistically proven that only one in 8 gamblers wins on average (online, offline, casinos, etc.) so it's natural that arguments that say online gambling is trash more than those who support it.
Gambling is one of the riskiest game in the planet if you have no control you can lose everything in an instant, all those who are against gambling and doing a crusade against gambling have seen the evil and the worst of gambling, even the winners are not safe from the dangers of gambling, the only good thing on gambling is if we have a mindset that we are just going to enjoy it and allocate money that we can lose.
Those who understand gambling will share their good and bad experiences to the newbies so they can spread awareness and prevent someone from losing big money. This anti gambling campaign is not about ruining the reputation of any casinos or any gambling site, this is just a warning and a guide for every gambler. Its all up to you if you’re going to take the risk, at least those people didn’t stop from spreading such information to help you out on this trap.
That will never stop. There will always be those articles and reminders that people shouldn't gamble because it only brings disaster to everyone's lives. It's also always giving that reason about mental sickness and OP got it right. But somehow, there's also basis for having that reason because some gamblers that have been found to be addicted needs to seek and have a mental help. I understand that they're too mindful to not everyone fall into addiction but they should also be transparent what it can do to the economy and a few professional gamblers.
the one who responsible in gambling or the one knows this bad yet still doing?
What do you actually mean by "knows this bad yet still doing"?
The whole context here is, gambling is not as bad as you think. Should we really have to blame gambling for those people who end up worst?
If we fall into the worst-case scenario, then it's us who should be blamed. That's why we need to reach the level of being responsible gamblers at any cost.
Gambling is one of the riskiest game in the planet if you have no control you can lose everything in an instant, all those who are against gambling and doing a crusade against gambling have seen the evil and the worst of gambling, even the winners are not safe from the dangers of gambling, the only good thing on gambling is if we have a mindset that we are just going to enjoy it and allocate money that we can lose.
Gambling isnt evil, the only evil thing is into someones intentions on it, if you do treat this is as a source of income or treating it a thing for you to get rich and this is where mistakes or problems do happen on where peoples intentions arent really on the right point.Gambling is for entertainment but people are overexerting on things which is the wrong stuff and when government do sees
it on the negative side where its citizens is already going into the wrong path of addiction then this is where they do making out these kind of bans and prohibitions but
actually these things wont exist if people are really just engaging on it on the right way.
I don't think the anti-gambling movement or what you say is doing anything wrong, honestly.
You just can't compare gambling to any other job, a guy who maybe a big loser in gambling can be quite productive worker and can earn good money by hard work. It's not at all good to compare them, because they aren't even the same. It's so gross to generalize a loser in gambling= a loser in real world!
Gambling has destructive conclusions and many, millions of people lose family, money, respect and many even commit suicide and hence many countries has made it illegal as well.
Obviously it is a negative thing, you just can't say it's a good thing because you think it's good and easy way to make money? It's not lol, even when you win big, you will simply lose it all at the end because of our human all-time greedy nature, and almost all religions as well consider it a sin.
I mean "sheik" I understand you may not see anti gambling people that bad, but in the modern world we have always based our beliefs on the fact that "if someone is not hurting someone else, nobody should stop that person from hurting themselves", there are people who are against people doing many things, sure gambling is not as severe as that but there are religious people trying to stop people from doing things all around the world, this is wrong, very wrong, in the modern world because if a person is not hurting you or doing anything that even slightly touches your life, then you cannot touch their life neither.You just can't compare gambling to any other job, a guy who maybe a big loser in gambling can be quite productive worker and can earn good money by hard work. It's not at all good to compare them, because they aren't even the same. It's so gross to generalize a loser in gambling= a loser in real world!
Gambling has destructive conclusions and many, millions of people lose family, money, respect and many even commit suicide and hence many countries has made it illegal as well.
Obviously it is a negative thing, you just can't say it's a good thing because you think it's good and easy way to make money? It's not lol, even when you win big, you will simply lose it all at the end because of our human all-time greedy nature, and almost all religions as well consider it a sin.
Anyone who gambles just gambles and if they lose money then they lose money and it has nothing to do with us, he didn't do anything remotely related to us, so we can't say anything or do anything against him neither, that is how the world works. If you start deciding what others can or can't do then the world becomes dictatorship.
Gambling is one of the riskiest game in the planet if you have no control you can lose everything in an instant, all those who are against gambling and doing a crusade against gambling have seen the evil and the worst of gambling, even the winners are not safe from the dangers of gambling, the only good thing on gambling is if we have a mindset that we are just going to enjoy it and allocate money that we can lose.
Everywhere I look, all I see are negative comments made about money lost gambling. Mental illness associated with gambling and anything that can illustrate gambling in a negative light.
As someone who considers themselves to be a profitable gambler. The trend of covering only the negative side of the industry puzzles me.
Why is there never mention of the winners.
It's because many people are losing money than winning, I don't know the percentage it could be 90% are losing money from gambling, and those who win from gambling there's a possibility that they also lose a lot of money, the good side of gambling is not about making a lot of money but rather having fun and get entertainment, gambling is exciting if there is no pressure from winning money.
What I know is that the gambling industry is a profitable industry, this is called entertainment so it's just normal to see them profitable.
The logic is very simple, when you want entertainment in gambling, you spend, and when you spend that means you lose money and casinos will be the recipient of that. Don't get confused by our chance, I think 10% of the total number is so high, most gamblers are losers, some are making money but those are the professional, probably 1% only.
I haven't seen any anti gambling campaign to be honest (or probably I have seen it but just ignored it). Their maybe some, but it's not pushed as aggressively as you think. You say that you are a profitable gambler. Maybe you are lucky. Not everyone can be a profitable gambler. You are making profit because someone else is losing. If everyone ends up being a "profitable gambler", casinos will go out of business.
Why is there never mention of the winners.
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Because they do not want to promote gambling. Where do you think that million dollar came from? Obviously a group of people altogether lost a million dollar to fund that one winner.
Besides, it's their choices to play gambling, however, their logic seems not working because after they lost their money in gambling, they will ask help to their local Government for food, how ironic.
Yes, many people rely on their governments to guarantee their basic needs nowadays because they are very poor and/or because they are unable to manage their finances correctly in a sustainable way on long run. But it doesn't happen only with gamblers. I see many people who have more children they can afford to sustain, alcohol and drugs addicted, all of them taking money from the government.So it's actually not an issue caused by gambling, instead it's caused solely by human irresponsibility. Anyway it's really an absurd situation because who is giving free money to these people isn't actually the government, but the other citizens who sustain the government.
A coin has two sides and if people what to give one side of the story without telling the other, am afraid this so called awareness campaign will fall on deaf ears, but I still appreciate their efforts because gambling can sometimes get the better of you especially if you lose quite a lot.
Everywhere I look, all I see are negative comments made about money lost gambling. Mental illness associated with gambling and anything that can illustrate gambling in a negative light.
As someone who considers themselves to be a profitable gambler. The trend of covering only the negative side of the industry puzzles me.
Why is there never mention of the winners.
It's because many people are losing money than winning, I don't know the percentage it could be 90% are losing money from gambling, and those who win from gambling there's a possibility that they also lose a lot of money, the good side of gambling is not about making a lot of money but rather having fun and get entertainment, gambling is exciting if there is no pressure from winning money.
The majority of people perceive gambling to be evil and the harm outweighs the benefits, that is why so many people are against gambling and promote hate against gambling, that is why we responsible gamblers should educate people on how and when to gamble, yes there is an opportunity make money from gambling but in any way that we will make a living out of it, very few people can do this.
There are only few gambling winners compared to the number of people who lost all their life savings in gambling. Not all people who had good fortunes in gambling had a good life. You can find it all over the internet, people who had hit a jackpot and lost it all in am instant due to poor financial management.
Exactly the point here , there are majority who loss while only few whos lucky enough to say gambling is really profitable.that made sense about the campaign and why there are many supports .
Because there are too few of a winners compared to losers in gambling, also gambling isn't a healthy habit to have since it is a vice and it can be addicting. The motive behind the campaign is that they want to help people deter from possibility of gambling addiction.
I get your point and that is simply correct but also they are depriving people that want to gamble and want to spend their money legally .becoming an addict in gambling is our own responsibility and stupidity , we must study first every details in what we are entering and this is how gamble must be treated .
If we have no solution other than banning gambling, then this world will not be a better place to live.
Just think of cigarettes, we know it's bad for our health but it's not banned, why was that?
Another one is liquor, it could make people make a bad decision when under the influence of liquor, why it's not banned?
Simple because there are people who are responsible enough who know the risk, and they were able to manage it effectively.
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