Americans increasingly see legal sports betting as a bad thing for society and sports
www.pewresearch.org
Today, 43% of U.S. adults say the fact that sports betting is now legal in much of the country is a bad thing for society, up from 34% in 2022.
  • saltesc@lemmy.worldEnglish
    141·
    2 months ago

    I mean, they didn’t listen to Australians about Murdoch, why would they listen to them about online sports betting?

  • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    2 months ago

    I’ve managed to cut ads out of my world for 20+ years now; when I accidentally end up seeing some now at a restaurant with TVs or something, the amount of sports betting ads is astounding.

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.caEnglish
    10·
    2 months ago

    Yeah no shit

    I unfortunately was part of that machine for a short while. Without going into much detail, I got in right under the c-suite, saw that every meeting was “act now, ask forgiveness later”. The CTO then couldn’t keep his creepy hands off of the employees until I reported him, which caused him to toss me under the bus right before he got fired.

    No regrets beyond ever being hired there in the first place.

      • Phoenixz@lemmy.caEnglish
        1·
        7 days ago

        Responding 2 months after I posted this and still you managed to get it removed by a mod in under 4 hours. What fucked up things did you write there, buddy?

  • jaykrown@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    2 months ago

    I’ve never been into gambling because I’ve looked at the odds. I think it’s only people who think they’ll get “lucky” that waste their money on it. Just use the word gambling rather than betting. For some people it’s a terrible addiction and costs them their futures.

    • Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      9·
      2 months ago

      I was at work one time, and a coworker won $500 on a scratch ticket. I expressed I was jealous when I was working with his buddy later that day. He said, “don’t be, he spends more than that on it a month, he didn’t even break even”.

    • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      The only time I’ve done any kind of gambling really is back when I cared about Counter Strike more. First, you bet with skins, not money, and I never put much money in. Second, you could actually play it smart because gamblers are stupid. If there’s a team that’s popular, a lot of people will bet on them, and you’ll sometimes get some crazy odds, like an 80+% chance of them winning. In reality, most games are close to 50/50, or they wouldn’t be competing with each other. If you find these games where the odds were broken by dumb gamblers, you could actually win.

      With that said, gambling requires money to be lost. The company couldn’t make a profit if people were winning money, on average. They also aren’t just making a profit. They’re making a large profit, and spending a shit ton of money on advertising. Once you take that into account you have to recognize that the players are losing an incredible amount of money to the company.

  • CallMeAnAI@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    2 months ago

    I personally couldn’t give a fuck about and like gambling.

    That being said, hearing ads 20 times a day about ‘betting in “markets” you didn’t even know about’ (yes that’s the commerical language) is just an extension of wsb gambling and it’s pretty fucked up.

    • Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      4·
      2 months ago

      I mute kevin hart every time he shows up. I cant fucking stand the guy. The latest commercial features lebron james, And it upsets me, because so many you men/boys look up to him.

      I mute that shit so fast.

    • pulsewidth@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      Legalising gambling is a much better solution than the alternative of back room illegal gambling, loan sharks, enforcers and hit men. Shit it’s not far back in history.

      The problem is it needs to be heavily regulated, like: mandatory industry-funded addicts support services, high tax industry, no advertising allowed (including online), regulated opening hours, system-wide self-ban system for problem gamblers, no poker machines anywhere but casinos, etc - you know, things that smart countries do with success.