Or You're already dangerously stupid - why not use that quality to rid your wallet of excess money by downloading the FanDuel app?
I've already posted about how much I hate this phenomenon of advertising impulse gambling like it's some kind of fun activity you'd be involved in already if you weren't such a stick in the mud and not an addiction-creating, finances-endangering disaster waiting to happen. We've devolved so far from condemning gambling that we now have sites like FanDuel and DraftKings sponsoring pregame shows. In a few short decades we've gone from "drink this soda or you're a loser" to "drink this beer or you're a loser" to "drink this hard liquor or you're a loser" to "bet on everything imaginable or you're a loser," and I don't call this "progress." I call it pathetic and sad and more than a little scary.
I don't see this as innocent fun, especially but not exclusively because we are living in a time of stretched paychecks and flatlined 401(k)s. I see this horror as a gold mine for a few manipulative greedy scumbags who are too lazy to rip off the desperate the old-fashioned way- by opening a Check Cashing Service or offering Payday Loans or running a Rent-a-Center or pawn shop. I think these people would be offering free samples of crack* if it weren't for all these annoying laws. And who is going to pay for all this? The idiots who don't realize that gambling is as addictive as alcohol and sugar- which will also be heavily promoted in between ads for gambling sites. Good luck to the rest of us, and get ready for a wave of "I lost my family and my house because of my new drug addiction" stories.
*please note that ALL of these gambling sites offer their own versions of "free samples" these days.
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