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There was a post yesterday on /r/smallbusiness about helping an employee who had a heroin addiction and helping one who had a gambling addiction. The overwhelmi
by HeyLaughingBoy 3y ago
There was a post yesterday on /r/smallbusiness about helping an employee who had a heroin addiction and helping one who had a gambling addiction. The overwhelming consensus was that the gambling addiction was worse, which is not what I would have expected. But the logic made sense from the financial perspective: you can only use so much heroin in a day, but you can spend an unlimited amount on gambling.
- imzadi 3y agoI feel like this is backwards? When you reach your heroine limit, you die. It's pretty final. And, most people don't have unlimited money with which to gamble.
- realce 3y agoEvery time you use heroin, it works. Gambling works maybe 1/10 times.
- j45 3y agoNot really, addictions usually need higher quantities and frequency.
- j45 3y agoAnother thing with gambling is the drug (cash) is always around you and in your hands. Easy to lose value for it.
- Jerrrry 3y agoA dizzy, barely uncomfortable bed-ridden weekend and a strip of Orange paper, vs. A lifelong proclivity to quantize, metrify, and reduce all social interactions to transactional objects that exist soley to be leveraged. The latter also happens to drug addicts, but the it is a psychological phenomenon that can be stymied with medication. Unfortunately, no analogous chemical exists (yet!) for the similarly inflected urge to gamble.