I’m not referring to the people who gamble once in a blue moon. I’m talking about those who gamble habitually.
How come they’re all such garbage people, with legitimately no exceptions? Take a look at any high-stakes poker table and everyone except maybe the dealer is a de-facto scumbag.
You take that back about Kenny Rodgers!!
I get what you’re saying about gambling and pieces of shit, but you also say, “but not THIS kind of gambler.” I used to play a ton of online poker, but there was no real money. I WAS gambling, and there were in-game prizes and prestige to win, but I think we’d both agree that probably doesn’t make me a piece of shit.
So, let’s put a finer point in it.
A would say that gambling is ESPECIALLY ATTRACTIVE to pieces of shit. The idea of getting rich by doing nothing, is going to sound REALLY good to the same people who would run a scam on your grandma. Throw in the fact that deception is a key element of poker, and you’ve created a game that gives an advantage to con men.
You’re probably right that you’d find a higher percentage of pieces of shit in a group of gamblers when compared to non gamblers, but It’s not the gambling that makes them shitty, they already were, and if gambling didn’t exist, they’d probably just be finding other ways to scam their way to riches.
I think it’s probable that gambling, or any other habit that strongly activates certain reward pathways to the extent that it can form an addiction, would change your behaviour patterns in broader ways.
Almost all characteristics are both nature and nurture, and frequent gambling could change the balance of your personality.
Gambling is very addictive and free money is a powerful incentive for people with little hope.
It’s not just that, but also what these people choose to spend their money on.
Their vain and selfish, but for some reason people look up to them and give them respect.
This guys dad gambles
And his mother was a tailor.
When I have a child, they can grow up to be whatever they want to be, as long as they aren’t “check 30 lottery tickets at the gas station while everyone is trying to go to work” guy.
It’s always so sad when I see people doing that. What a terrible existence.
Addicts? I think that’s separate from gambling, but anyone who does it obsessively to the point it makes them a “piece of shit” is is an addict. And it’s an expensive addiction.
I met a guy who had been a pro poker player for years and he was ok, just a person. He quit while he was ahead. I think you do have to be ok with lying to be good at poker, but other than that I don’t think your universal rule holds.
Have you lost to one of them by any chance?
No, why?
Because they have the means (money) to squander it gambling, similarly squandering it on any other vice: self gratification.
It’s incredibly selfish, it’s probably money that could have made an employee’s life better, or a charity more effective.
This makes sense. I agree with you.
