I am sooo glad I got a bad taste for gambling when I was a kid.
I remember going on an Baltic cruise with my family and trying the gambling machines as a kid.
I had some coins, gambled, won, got happy, kept going, and lost everything, got sad.
It was a small amount of money, but at the time it was probably the best money I have spent in my life as it put me off gambling completely.
I also know from games like Borderlands 2 where I have gambled with the in-game currency, that while I have no issues just walking past a gambling machine or table, if I start, I have a hard time walking away.
gambling has always been a cancer but this shit is somehow even worse still.
Gambling is for the low IQ’s. It always uplifts the worst among us and you get nothing for it. If nothing else is profitable then everything becomes gambling. Like cross your fingers and hope you are not eating a donkey burger with glass shards.
I’ve worked as a cashier and see the same people destroy their lives from simple Lotto. They don’t even need trips to Vegas or online sites. Exploiting these people is bad enough, state governments shouldn’t be the ones doing it.
