Gambling... why!?

[Fried]

THE ISSUE OF GAMBLING

Recently, he feels increasingly speak of "Scratch & Win" and derivatives ... but why?The answer is simple: any individual to whom it is proposed to get (have not used the word "earn" precisely because it is considered that this is the more appropriate term) of money by spending just a few Euros/Pounds/Dollars, inevitably runs into the temptation to say: "Why not? So much goes wrong than if I spent only one Euro/Pound/Dollar.

But, as we know, people do not stop When you buy one "Scratch & Win": generally the mentality of the players of this kind is that specified above, but since "losing" is a term not popular with everyone, they assail you

repeatedly committed for the new "Scratch & Win", and when the 1 Euro/Pound/Dollar end, players start to buy those 2 Euro/Pound/Dollar, probably doubling the top prize, but the odds of winning are little or nothing.

With a quick thinking you will find that there is something odd about all this: why play? It was therefore decided to interview, albeit discreetly, some players and "the answer" most popular was "to pick up a bit of money. "

It is therefore to ask another question: are all these homeless players? (We apologize to those who are serious in having prevented the house, but this comparison seemed to be the only one capable of expressing the mental status of avid gamblers) Certainly some of them become as continuing in this way indebtedness so that it can not support a more "normal" life.

It is true that there are some people who can, perhaps with the help of family and friends, to leave the world of gambling, or others, though very few, who "play responsibly" by buying a " Scratch & Win "only occasionally, playing the lottery and derivatives only on rare occasions and not regularly, attending the Casino very rarely and only for the pleasure of spending an evening with friends, maybe even playing.

But not everything always ends well: there have been cases where some players, no longer able to bear the costs, decided to do without the possibility of living, causing new sorrows to family and friends.

[Marat]

All forms of gambling seem silly, since you pay $1.00 for a lottery ticket worth about $0.10, since otherwise the lottery operator could not make a lot of money. But people have argued that lottery tickets should be viewed as a kind of inverse insurance policy. When I buy insurance, I protect myself against the unlikely occurrence of an enormous catastrophe, and I pay more than that protection is worth, since the insurance company makes a profit. When I buy a lottery ticket, I buy the chance of the unlikely occurrence of something very good happening to me, i.e., winning the lottery prize, for which I pay more than it is worth, since the lottery operator makes a profit. Viewed this way, buying a lottery ticket can seem as rational as buying insurance, with the only difference being that I can't avoid the risk that something terrible will happen to me, but I can neglect buying the unlikely opportunity that something very good may happen to me.

[michel123456]

I am a clever guy: I am printing 100.000 of tickets with no value, cost of printing & distribution about 1 cent/ticket=1000$. I put a price 1$/ticket, so I get an income of 100000$. I KNOW, because I decided that way, that only 1000 tickets are winning an average of 20$, making a total expense of 20000$. The result is a gain of 100000$ minus 20000 minus 1000= 79000$. I am the winner. Each week (maybe each day) I make an income of 79000$, drinking martini at the pool side in Miami. The gamblers are suckers. And stupid. Really stupid.