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137 sats \ 11 replies \ @grayruby 5h \ on: I’m a College Student. Gen Z Sports Betting Is Wrecking My Friends’ Lives | WSJ Stacker_Sports econ

I am not surprised. Gambling is everywhere now. You might be right that losing small amounts of money early on might be a good lesson.

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97 sats \ 10 replies \ @SimpleStacker OP 5h

I wish people would learn how to say "Yes, this is a problem. No, we don't need more laws to deal with it."

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27 sats \ 8 replies \ @Undisciplined 5h

The cure for being an idiot is being an idiot?

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111 sats \ 2 replies \ @Scoresby 4h

There's a quote from The Once and Future King:

Education is experience, and the essence of experience is self-reliance.

Maybe the cure for being an idiot actually is being an idiot...as long as you must bear the consequences of your own idiocy.

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129 sats \ 1 reply \ @Undisciplined 3h

Learn or die, dummies

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208 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker OP 1h
Learn or die

I view our unwillingness to let people die as a natural consequence of their own actions as an externality imposed by moral conscience that shapes much of how we should think about public policy.

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61 sats \ 4 replies \ @SimpleStacker OP 5h

Honestly all the examples in the article are pretty low grade. Not even a 4-digit loss, and no suicides. They should consider it a pretty inexpensive lesson all things considered.

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38 sats \ 3 replies \ @Undisciplined 5h

For sure. Although, if I had lost $600 as an undergrad, it would have taken me years to dig out of that financial hole.

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68 sats \ 2 replies \ @grayruby 5h

I spent $2800 on a trip to Europe when I was 20 and it felt like I had spent a million dollars. Haha

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58 sats \ 1 reply \ @Undisciplined 5h

Tell me those were Canadian dollars at least

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82 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby 4h

Yes. Exchange rate was probably pretty similar to now. That was before the Euro so I had to carry like 5 different currencies.

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7 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby 5h

Agreed.

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