Stories of getting rich quick are coming through the ether everyday.
I get asked to invest in Bitcoin every week without fail. I’m never going to do it.
Having been married to a bank manager for most of my adult life I’ve been far to well prepared never to gamble.
I never have .
I read the blurb and then eliminate it. I’m never going to be tempted to gamble. But recently some high profile characters have explained how easy it is to make a great deal of money fairly quickly.
If you are young and struggling a little I can understand that if you can get a couple of hundred pounds together the chance of it making you a richer person than you ever dreamed of is a temptation so that a heady blast of excitement might make you at least try.
The young woman who told her fiancée on their wedding day that they were rich beyond anything they had ever dreamed of made good weekend reading. But I’m not sure how the new husband reacted to the news. To find out on your wedding day that your bride had been prepared to gamble might well have been a nasty shock even though it had all turned out well.
I have never had any urge to gambol. My father betting away his hard earned wages every Saturday immunised my psyche at a very early age.
All these people gambling on bitcoin and winning well are persuasive . But they can't all win all the time surely . There must be losers as well as winners surely?
If you gamble you to be prepared to lose money....it’s all part of the system. Winners mean that somewhere other people are losing.
It’s a choice I get offered frequently . I’m never going to join in.
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2 comments:
In my long life I have known 2 people who have had a serious addiction to gambling, both of whom wrecked not only their own lives but those of their families too.
I never gamble. Do not buy raffle tickets or draw tickets and never bet on anything
When I was in my early 20's I took part in an office draw for a horse in the Derby. My horse won and a man i worked with persuaded me to back it with a bet in the local betting shop.
It was a shilling on the nose bet and as I have said, it won, so, I not only got the office prize but 22 shillings from the bet.
It had come in at 22 to one and my colleague was exstatic. He was convinced I would want to join him in his daily betting.
No one could understand why I was shocked at the ease with which I had won such an enormous (in those days) amount without working for it.
That was the only time I have ever gambled, and I can still remember the feeling almost of guilt when given my winnings.
The blandishments to gamble (or Gambol?) are from those who are fleecing gullible people and it is a scandal
The advent of internet, uncontrolled gambling is also a disgrace, along with the many betting shops on our high streets, with their high stakes machines, which means that you can lose huge amounts on one spin of the on screen wheels.
Gambling is costing families their homes, jobs and huge debt. It is a scandal, and while the church has spoken out about the Fixed Odds betting Terminals, they have been silent on most of the rest.
Gambling is severely addictive like alcohol and drugs, needing extensive support to overcome. There is evidence of gamblers facing huge debt, taking their own lives because of it.
Gambling in terms of national lotteries etc, also encourage excessive lay out If you go to any supermarket, you will see people lining up to pay huge sums for lottery tickets or for the scratch cards, one woman in front of me, paid out £50 for them, how often does she do that?
There is no morality or compassion by the gambling companies, they are a business out to make as much profit as they are able for their owners or shareholders. This is evil and something we should all be worried about.
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