They want to win so that at day's end they can lose?
Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2014 10:12 pm
I’m somewhat curious about how people in good conscious willingly work at such an insidious source of considerable angst through addiction.
The fact is, government-owned lotteries and casinos, typically large and potent advertisers with our mainstream news-media, are callously exploiting the often debilitating weaknesses of their consumers—especially those with obsessive/compulsive tendencies; and, no, offering gambling addiction withdrawal services and/or financing in return does not suffice.
There is psychology literature stating that gamblers intentionally though typically subconsciously gamble until they lose all that they came in with on the games of chance. The addiction can reach an extreme point where, as demonstrated in the movie Owning Mahowny, the gambler can break a casino table’s funds and still not leave the casino until he/she is essentially broke. It’s written that they do so in order to have an excuse to punish their psyches afterwards.
Perhaps it's a form of platonic mental masochism.
The fact is, government-owned lotteries and casinos, typically large and potent advertisers with our mainstream news-media, are callously exploiting the often debilitating weaknesses of their consumers—especially those with obsessive/compulsive tendencies; and, no, offering gambling addiction withdrawal services and/or financing in return does not suffice.
There is psychology literature stating that gamblers intentionally though typically subconsciously gamble until they lose all that they came in with on the games of chance. The addiction can reach an extreme point where, as demonstrated in the movie Owning Mahowny, the gambler can break a casino table’s funds and still not leave the casino until he/she is essentially broke. It’s written that they do so in order to have an excuse to punish their psyches afterwards.
Perhaps it's a form of platonic mental masochism.