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I remember some of my college friends being mildly addicted to online poker back in the mid-2000s. Is this really a novel phenomenon?
by georgeburdell 3y ago
I remember some of my college friends being mildly addicted to online poker back in the mid-2000s. Is this really a novel phenomenon?
- richbell 3y agoThe barrage of gambling ads seems unprecedented, at least in my neck of the woods.
- al_borland 3y agoThere will always be people who seek it out. When I look at Apple’s App Store, ESPN Bets is the #2 free app. #1 is Temu, which feeds a different kind of addiction to get people to throw their money away. It’s one thing for it to exist. It’s another for it to be legally above board, front and center where people go to find stuff to do, advertised non-stop, and living in people’s pockets. These new sites and apps, that can now advertise and operating openly, have thrown gasoline on the fire.
- solumunus 3y agoThe scale of addiction won’t be remotely comparable. The UK has had completely legal, tax free gambling for a very long time and addiction has become a huge issue, with online poker being a tiny part (barely even features in the discourse) of the story. We’re talking about life destroying levels of addiction.