As someone that absolutely loves gambling and loves going to casinos to waste money with friends, I would never touch any of the shit that gets pushed on us on a daily basis. Unfortunately, a lot people that enjoy gambling do not have the forethought or impulse control to think “maybe I shouldn’t put the slot machine in my pocket” and instead think “you mean I can just do it from my pocket?” I’m not saying this as an insult to those that fall into it and I’m not saying that I’m better than them. There are definitely times I have considered it. Even now I’m fighting the urge to download an app and I don’t even watch sports!

Gambling is being injected into every facet of our lives at this point and it’s genuinely hard, if not impossible, to avoid. People like to think that only stupid people fall for this but that’s not really the truth. Desperate and vulnerable people fall for it. People that want an easy way out of the financial hole that we’ve been put into. Unless you are upper middle class or higher, $100,000 would literally be life changing. And it’s pretty fucked up that they’ve made us all this desperate while they rake in millions of dollars off of us on a daily basis.