Experts warn mobile sports betting could be gateway to gambling crisis for young men in New York

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• GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml ⁨14⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  Online sports betting through apps on your phone is just yet another example of everything sliding toward degeneracy

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• AstroLightz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Oh, just in New York? Whew, I’m safe then.

  /s

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• themoken@startrek.website ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Sports gambling is just terrible for everyone except the bloodsuckers that run it. Sports teams don’t want it because it incentivizes cheating / rigging games. Personal bankruptcy and domestic abuse skyrocket when people lose money they can’t afford to lose. Now the apps feed an unstable addiction literally all day long.

  Thanks to the Supreme Court for pulling a bullshit ruling out of their collective asses in 2018 that makes everything worse for average Americans.

  Shit, I don’t even gamble and I’m just sick of their logos and ads all over every thing when I watch a game. Used to be they had “Gambling Prohibited” up around the stadium, now they may as well own the teams.

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  • acosmichippo@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Sports teams don’t want it because it incentivizes cheating / rigging games.

    this isn’t true generally speaking. some individuals may speak out against sports betting, but in the aggregate the players and leagues are happy to take the revenue it generates. If they really took issue with it they could address it in their collective bargaining agreements, but it has never been a contentious issue as far as i know.

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    • adespoton@lemmy.ca ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The difference is that black market gambling is distributed. It means that there are fewer protections for people who engage in it.

      But legalization just means most of the action is controlled by a handful of corporations, and the government is involved in protecting the flow of money, of which they get a cut.

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• throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This type of gambling lose money. If you want the thrill of risking something, rob a bank. Either you win big, or your suffering immediately ends 💀🔫👮‍♂️

  /kidding

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  • hddsx@lemmy.ca ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Banks don’t hold large amounts of cash anymore.

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    • Fondots@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      “large” is relative.

      Unless you’re incredibly thorough about totally cleaning out the vault, ATM, every teller drawer, etc. you’re probably not gonna be able to get more than a few 10s of thousands if you’re lucky

      But even a few thousand, or hell, even a couple hundred could be huge for a lot of people.

      That might be rent for a month or a couple of months when they’re really struggling, what they need to keep their car from getting repo’d so they can get to their job, pay for some badly needed home repairs, medications, etc.

      I’m not struggling, but I’m not exactly doing great either, a couple extra thousand bucks on-hand would be amazing for me, and for some people it could be literally life-changing (even life-saving)

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• Fizz@lemmy.nz ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Young men are so cooked. When I look at the content thats algorithmically fed to them and compare it to when I was growing up. I actually think they’d be better off watching Isis beheading videos and talking to pedofiles in AOL chatrooms.

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• ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This is already a serious problem imo

  My counseling practice is geared at queer people so I don’t get a ton of sports gambling types generally but I do get some and the amounts they reveal spending is mind boggling to me. Like 20-30% of income

  I have a colleague at a more affluent practice in the city I used to work in that is geared towards “men’s issues” and he sees this far more. We’ve discussed it a few times now. He tends to get more of the bro type

  It’s silent too, very often hidden from partners. I increasingly hear about it as a source of stress in relationships too: someone comes in one day and everything was going okay but their shit is blown up because it turns out their brofriend is spending 1800 a week on parlays

  Deregulation works!

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• pulsewidth@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Australian millennial checking in, when I was young ‘nobody’ my age made bets on sports, like maybe 5% of the population. Gamblimg ads were heavily regulated as were gaming organizations.

  The gambling ads for tipping and online betting and gambling apps have ramped up and online gambling was allowed to flourish with relaxed regulations. Taking us to the current state of affairs where they are unavoidable, and gambling companies are major sponsors of all our sports events.

  The current youth now have a huge problem with gambling.

  theguardian.com/…/a-massive-public-health-problem…

  Push back hard if you can on mobile gambling in your neck of the woods, because once the government gets addicted to the revenue and the ‘corporate events’ they are very disinterested in reeling it back.

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• adespoton@lemmy.ca ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Why limited to young men in new york?

  That’s like saying that submerging a young man’s head in water for over five minutes could lead to death.

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  • Gibibit@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Because the trend was detected via New York’s helpline.

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  • iltoroargento@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    So, we know that’s true in New York, but what about submerging a young man’s head in, say, Washington State? 🧐

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• SoupBrick@pawb.social ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Gambling company owners say, “Nuh-uh.”

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