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> It is not 100% certain you will lose long term. Thus can be pleasurable to me. Is betting your job or an entertainment for you? If you see it as a job, a mea

by dwild 7y ago

> It is not 100% certain you will lose long term. Thus can be pleasurable to me. Is betting your job or an entertainment for you? If you see it as a job, a means to make money, I feel like that's unhealthy. When I go see a movie, even if the money is "lost", I still enjoy it. You go to the movie for the emotion it makes you feel, just like you bet for the emotion it makes you fell. It's the trill, the chance of seeing big wins. At the end of the day, casino can be actually quite cheap if you don't bet too high and there's free drinks too usually ;).

arisAlexis 7y ago
the emotion you feel in the movie or buying any product is the product. The emotion you feel in Roulette is not because you find roulette spinning beautiful but because you think you can win money when you can't. I still don't understand
- dwild 7y ago
  > The emotion you feel in Roulette is not because you find roulette spinning beautiful but because you think you can win money when you can't. I still don't understand Sure that emotion is simulated, you won't actually win money. The same is true for the emotions you feel during a movie. The fear you may feel in a horror movie isn't real, you aren't in any danger. In both case though the emotion is really there and that's what you pay for. That's exactly why loot boxes are essentially gambling even though you get no monetary gains from it. It plays on the sames emotions, the same thrill.
  - arisAlexis 7y ago
    In the movie you are certain that this is not happening. In the roulette your mind actually thinks that you won. When you win $500 in the roulette you think you have won whereas you actually lost money by playing and you are riding some random fluctuations. Few people can intuitively understand the concept that when you win money at the roulette you actually lost $0.2 per spin in a $1 roulette multiplied by the times you spinned.

by dwild 7y ago

arisAlexis 7y ago

the emotion you feel in the movie or buying any product is the product. The emotion you feel in Roulette is not because you find roulette spinning beautiful but because you think you can win money when you can't. I still don't understand

dwild 7y ago
> The emotion you feel in Roulette is not because you find roulette spinning beautiful but because you think you can win money when you can't. I still don't understand Sure that emotion is simulated, you won't actually win money. The same is true for the emotions you feel during a movie. The fear you may feel in a horror movie isn't real, you aren't in any danger. In both case though the emotion is really there and that's what you pay for. That's exactly why loot boxes are essentially gambling even though you get no monetary gains from it. It plays on the sames emotions, the same thrill.
- arisAlexis 7y ago
  In the movie you are certain that this is not happening. In the roulette your mind actually thinks that you won. When you win $500 in the roulette you think you have won whereas you actually lost money by playing and you are riding some random fluctuations. Few people can intuitively understand the concept that when you win money at the roulette you actually lost $0.2 per spin in a $1 roulette multiplied by the times you spinned.