criss_cross@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
I’m not opposed to sports betting on its own, but I am absolutely appalled at how much it’s bastardized everything.
It’s one thing if it’s in small doses and you can sort of just ignore it. It’s another thing when EVERY FUCKING SITE AND PLATFORM has gambling odds, gambling ads, gambling sponsors. Etc. You can’t blink without these predators trying to siphon money from people.
If I were a recovering gambling addict and sports fan id be heartbroken right now.
What’s extremely scary about online sportsbetting is how they game the user into falling further into the spiral with dark patterns. I can’t see that anyone with a slightly addictive personality could possibly not get completely railroaded into massive debt.
This shit has to be addressed, and soon.
We can thank Trump’s Supreme Court for this. They overturned a previous ruling with a case in 2018 and now here we are.
I had a friend once who got a call from a sports bettor trying to sell their picks and asked him how much he bet on football a season. He said about $500. The guy laughed and hung up
I knew a guy when I was in big tech that’d lost $40K plus in draft kings per year.
Fucking insane what people pour into these.
40k jeez! That’s what I make yearly at work after taxes and benefits.
4am@lemmy.zip 11 hours ago
It ain’t even just sport anymore. Election coverage on CNN includes Kalshi odds like it’s a fucking scientific study. Gambling is everywhere online too? Games, livestreams. Crypto casinos where they can get kids hooked.
Some of the initial friction between live streamers with the online left was when “gamba” became prevalent and they started calling it out.
It used to be illegal to have online poker like 25 years ago and now there are DraftKings banners in metro train stations and LeBron got $15mil annually to stump for Polymarket. What are we even doing?
JackbyDev@programming.dev 6 hours ago
The fucking prediction market odds during the news is insane, as if it has any bearing on reality.
MJKee9@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
It’s fucking back to the future 2…