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That links not bad, though like beiju said, it does mention "Looking from a wider societal perspective, there are a range of costs that have not, or have only
by spencerflem 2y ago
That links not bad, though like beiju said, it does mention
"Looking from a wider societal perspective, there are a range of costs that have not, or have
only been partially quantified here (such as crime, education, cultural harms, impacts on
relationships and wider impacts on the families of gamblers). For these reasons, we believe the
figures of £412.9 million and £635 to £1,355.5 million to be an underestimate of the true scale
of the total economic burden associated with harmful gambling."
- echoangle 2y agoOk, but „we’re estimating about 1.5 billion but it’s likely more“ is far from „it’s absolutely more that 14 billion and that’s easy to find“. I’m not even saying I don’t believe that it’s more, it could be, but I don’t think there’s any proof of that.
- spencerflem 2y agoyou know what, fine. you win. you caught me in a bad mood, and I was sure of something and i was wrong. i still think it is perverse to argue in favor of gambling companies - an "industry" that is at best zero sum, simply reallocating money from one hand to an arguably less deserving hand. but in practice is dramatically negative sum when families are torn apart.