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> “You can be gambling away your house on your mobile phone sitting at the dinner table, and not a single person will know until the devastation of your whole f
by teeray 3y ago
> “You can be gambling away your house on your mobile phone sitting at the dinner table, and not a single person will know until the devastation of your whole family is complete”
That sounds like a reasonable means of control then. These services could be locked to networks at locations with some kind of gaming license (something like a Keno license).
- w-ll 3y agoI've heard of people going just across statelines to the first cell tower that reports them in a legal state, just ideling in their car gambling away.
- teeray 3y agoThere’s outliers in everything, but forcing people to go somewhere to gamble gets the cookies out of the house. Loved ones can notice the destructive behavior before it’s too late. It will not stop people from being ruined by it, but it will make progress.