ashwuk76
Player Valuation: £25m
What you have said about what the bookies do in betting shops is complete rubbish. They do not do this, they are encouraged to keep people there. They never go up to people heavy betting and try and get them to stop, just the opposite. You obviously dont know what it's really like sadly.But what more can they do? You play those machines and you get messages come up telling you how much you've spent/how long you have been playing - do you need a break etc. You have staff do interactions if you show signs of frustration/paying frequently on a card. They can also ban you if you agree to self exclude from the premises.
You dont see pub landlords coming over to your seat asking the same every time you buy a pint or shop staff stopping you buying 5 crates of ale or 10 packs of cigs.
In a society of freedom one aspect will always be people do too much of something, be it drinking, gambling, eating, smoking, shagging but I don't want to live in a world where our freedoms are taken away because of it because sooner or later you end up with bans and heavy restrictions like China/Korea etc. And its live to work not work to live.
There is support out there for all forms of addictions but it needs to start with the addict wanting to change.
As to it being like North Korea, you really are just over dramatising the issue, it will never be like that, that's just a stupid scaremongering tactic. Be realistic and not try and compare this to living in North Korea. I am all for a debate but not one that goes to this level of stupid.
This industry just like any other needs to be regulated more and less advertising, it's the only thing that gets advertising to a stupid degree. That's because they dont advertise alcohol as much as gambling and you cant advertise cigarettes anymore.
One point I do agree with you said earlier is the fact this will just push it online more. I just dont want people to go through what I did and it's very very easy to, scarily easy.