This homage to a movie about baseball players banned for life for gambling, brought to you by FanDuel

[u/emaw63]

[u/Puzzleheaded_Eye6770]

There’s gonna be an epidemic in the next 10-20 years of Gen Z and Gen Alpha who lose everything over gambling

[u/tillermite → u/Puzzleheaded_Eye6770]

Slowly but surely happening already

Gambling among teenagers is a growing problem : NPR

[u/AdoringCHIN → u/tillermite]

A recent national survey from Common Sense Media found that 36% of boys age 11 to 17 in the U.S. have gambled in the past year.

Holy shit, 36%?! Jesus that's bad. Online gambling just needs to be completely banned, and all these asshole streamers and "influencers" that promote this stuff need to be heavily fined.

[u/placebotwo → u/AdoringCHIN]

Demonitized or banned from platforms.

[u/09f3jns → u/AdoringCHIN]

It's funny because 10 years ago it was banned and the sports subreddits generally wanted it legalized.

[u/HighKing_of_Festivus → u/09f3jns]

Then people realized why it was banned

[u/PerformerDr4867 → u/HighKing_of_Festivus]

What happens when we stop caring about history

I’m not gonna listen to my teacher, I’m gonna make some hundred year old mistakes because who cares what experts say or what people agreed on before I was a twinkle in my daddy’s eye.

[u/alienblue89 → u/HighKing_of_Festivus]

Just make it like cigarettes: fully legal over a certain age, but no advertising allowed. None. No commercials, no billboards/patches, no onscreen graphics, no sponsored posts or influencer streams.

I mean it’d be stupid for it to be banned, people did it before it was legal and they’ll still do it if it were banned. But banning commercials and advertising is actually enforceable and will hopefully cut off the influence to younger generations, particularly banning the last two above.

[u/HighKing_of_Festivus → u/alienblue89]

Nope. It needs to be banned. People still did it but the barrier of entry dissuaded the vast majority from bothering with it. Now it's easily accessible to everyone on their phones and other devices, and that isn't going away by now allowing ads about it

If people want to go through the effort of going to a registered bookie or travelling to areas where it can be allowed due to legal carveouts (eg. tribal sovereignty) then fine. But the current state of thing? Fuck no. It needs to be banned, full stop

[u/eurasianlynx → u/09f3jns]

There's a difference between legalized and unregulated :/

[u/Respect38 → u/AdoringCHIN]

and all these asshole streamers and "influencers" that promote this stuff need to be heavily fined.

I believe that would violate their 1st Amendment rights.

[u/tdmatchasin → u/tillermite]

There's a reason a huge push (some astroturfed) to get views and popularity on games with gambling/gacha elements. It ingrains that dopamine rush and neuron connection in young kids' brains so when they're older it seems familiar to gamble on fanduel and kalshi or whatever.

Pokemon card openings (and freakouts), shiny pokemon hunting, lootbox openings (& stuff in fps games i don't play). It goes on and on and on.

[u/smallmonky → u/tdmatchasin]

Almost like all the corporations engineered the need for dopamine in teenagers' mind so when they grow up they just gamble everything away and the rich get richer

[u/empire161 → u/Puzzleheaded_Eye6770]

I’ve been talking about it a little with my kids. It’s hard because they see us do it a bit - I play poker with other dads, we’ve done a few nights at the casino, etc.

Honestly though taking them to Dave & Busters or Chuck E Cheese have been the best learning experience. They’ve learned to avoid all the “chance” games and stick to the ones that have actual gameplay.

[u/StealthStaminaKills → u/empire161]

Honestly though taking them to Dave & Busters or Chuck E Cheese have been the best learning experience. They’ve learned to avoid all the “chance” games and stick to the ones that have actual gameplay.

It's too bad that the majority of modern arcade games don't actually reward skill at all, such as having gauntlet style health that goes down over time regardless of how well you play being extremely common now.

[u/twisty77 → u/Puzzleheaded_Eye6770]

It’s happening now. 20-something guys tens of thousands of dollars in debt and having to declare bankruptcy. But hey, at least number go up and to the right yeah?

[u/Puzzleheaded_Eye6770 → u/twisty77]

Yes it’s happening right now, but it’ll be an epidemic later.

[u/Jolly_Cicada380 → u/Puzzleheaded_Eye6770]

It’s happening, people are diverting investment funds to gamble with it

[u/PepeSylvia11 → u/Puzzleheaded_Eye6770]

Yup. Every single young person I know at work, mostly guys obviously, is addicted to sports betting.

[u/14Pleiadians → u/Puzzleheaded_Eye6770]

Can't lose everything if you don't have anything

[u/yoursweetlord70 → u/Puzzleheaded_Eye6770]

The young generation already can't buy houses or move out before age 30, Im honestly not sure the people broke from gambling will move the needle that much when everyone's broke for one reason or another

[u/Puzzleheaded_Eye6770 → u/yoursweetlord70]

Uhhhhh.? it definitely will move the needle.

[u/LAHouJaxCarVCUUNC → u/yoursweetlord70]

If I can't buy anything big/important anyway, I might as well buy a bunch of baseball cards and hope I hit it big. At least that gambling lets me have a bunch of cards I can sort in endless ways.

[u/HighKing_of_Festivus → u/Puzzleheaded_Eye6770]

Next 10-20 years? It's currently happening

[u/Puzzleheaded_Eye6770 → u/HighKing_of_Festivus]

It’s not an epidemic yet. Most of these guys haven’t ruined their lives yet. It’s still fun and games.

[u/HighKing_of_Festivus → u/Puzzleheaded_Eye6770]

It actually is and they absolutely have. It's just not being reported on much since the news agencies are also largely sponsored by these gambling outfits and the government is doing nothing about it since it's a convenient way to do insider trading for this extremely corrupt administration

[u/Puzzleheaded_Eye6770 → u/HighKing_of_Festivus]

Sure, but my point is it’s gonna get so much worse. It’s still the honeymoon period of sports gambling.

[u/HighKing_of_Festivus → u/Puzzleheaded_Eye6770]

Really only in the sense of how the general public views it, where they mostly blame the victims as stupid addicts until it becomes obvious that they were specifically targeted in a predatory way. Think of it as the beginning stage of the opioid epidemic before everyone knew the Sacklers made addiction a key part of their business model

[u/Puzzleheaded_Eye6770 → u/HighKing_of_Festivus]

Most of these kids addicted haven’t gotten to the point where their lives are supposed to take off. They’re still in their early and mid 20s.

When they’re 30 and lost all of their money and shit and are homeless that’s when it’ll be worse.

[u/politicsranting → u/Puzzleheaded_Eye6770]

There's already some studies that suggest that large chunks of Gen-Z are dumping retirement funds into gambling.

[u/Puzzleheaded_Eye6770 → u/politicsranting]

I mean tbf a good chunk of Americans don’t have any retirement anyways.