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[–] EntheoNaut@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 hour ago

Our entire economic/investment/retirement system is founded on gambling on a manipulated stock market, it's all built on a ponzi scheme where 93% the entire market is owned by the wealthiest 10% of society, with 62% of the US buying into it.

Everything else is muggles wrangling and conniving for literal scraps. It's a top down scam.

Eat the fucking rich.

[–] rayyy@piefed.social 17 points 2 hours ago

US gambling addiction is ‘out of control’

Wanna bet?

[–] TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world 10 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Late stage capitalism runs on addiction.

[–] MasterBlaster@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago

"it's the end of the world as we know it it's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine"

[–] Bieren@lemmy.today 11 points 2 hours ago

Well stop playing gambling ads on tv every 4 seconds between drug ads. And stop allowing gambling companies to sponsor every single sporting event. Sports have just turned into an advertising agency for gambling companies.

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 29 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

There are two reasons people pour their money into gambling:

  • they have no hope of materially improving their lives through work
  • they are gambling addicts

And the transition from one to the other is pretty seamless.

[–] HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 hours ago

There are other reasons as well, ie: people who live with ADHD which means they may suffer from lack of impulse control, etc.

[–] SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

Any mode of online gambling/betting needs to be banned, at least in the US. So many people, like my father, cannot help themselves when it comes to gambling. Keep the gambling in the goddamn casino’s, so people have to drive there to throw their money away. With the online stuff, it’s as simple as opening a website or app.

This is so fucking shameful.

[–] IAmYouButYouDontKnowYet@reddthat.com 9 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

I don't think it matters because america tends to drive people to bad habits because people aren't able to live their authentic selves by design.

Our freedoms here are psycholically marketed illusion. No one is able to be who they could have been, who they're supposed to be.

[–] MasterBlaster@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

Let's start with Roblox and almost all mobile "free time" games.

[–] Butterphinger@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

People need to slow down and enjoy life.

By all means keep punching nazis and holding signs, but do go for a walk, read and enjoy the birds every now and then, money isn't literally everything.

[–] Iconoclast@feddit.uk 2 points 28 minutes ago

Money solves money problems. Money is everything untill you have enough and after that having more of it makes hardly a difference. I can totally understand why a poor person wants to become rich. However, I don't quite understand why an already rich person wants to become even richer.

America is out of control...