The Online Gambling Epidemic

a few months ago to celebrate my friend's birthday I went on a Victory Casino Cruise and not only did everyone get seasick almost immediately but we also lost all the money we brought in to gamble with it was one of the best days of my life for a good portion of the past Century getting on a boat that

reeks of piss and wobbling your way out just far enough into the ocean so that laws don't exist anymore was one of the only ways to legally gamble in the United States it had such a convoluted barrier of Entry that most people could go their entire lives without ever being tempted to do it just don't go to Nevada

and you'll probably never see a casino in 2024 this is no longer the case only on fan DoorKing mg priz P Underdog Hard Rock BN bet 365 smack me in the mouth with all love if you watch any sports at all ads for sports betting have become inescapable even if you muted every

commercial and closed your eyes until the game came back on it still plastered everywhere DraftKings promos pop up in the middle of a play there's bed MGM Billboards behind home plate FanDuel logos on the court on the microphones they come at you from every angle pepper spraying you in the face so you don't

notice they just pulled your pants down they've made it so watching sports and betting on sports are just two sides of the same coin like you can't have one without the other it's become so normalized that it might be easy to forget that gambling can be kind of bad actually about 10 million people in the

US alone struggle with gambling in some way a good portion of which are under the age of 25 gambling addicts attempt suicide at a rate 15 times higher than the general population the average debt of a gambling addict can range from1 15,000 to $90,000 but where most people would see this as a problem a few people