I'm looking for a couple of solutions and suggestions related to gambling.
Does anybody here know any suggestions on how to increase awareness about the wastage and loss of money due to gambling, and some solutions as to how to encourage gamblers not to waste excessive money on gambling activities? Or how about some examples of some strategies/methods that governments in various countries employ to tackle the problem?
I have gave the solutions some thought myself, but most of them are already implemented/overused/too cliche.
Thanks a million!
The best way is to withhold the finances of the gambler. For me, I put all my money into investments except the investments are under my best friend, my girlfriend, my parents name. So without money, I can't gamble, best way (money growing every year also).
Second way already implemented, prevent people from going into casino through the exclusion list.
Third way is to educate the gambler, but this abit hard, because emotions beat logic. You can logically explain why each table games odds are bad, you can logically calculate and show the maths correctly to a gambler, but they will still go gamble because they think with their emotions, feeling the odds won't apply to them.
Forth way, implement laws to release winnings to gambler only 1 month later. Whatever chips they have, instead of changing to cash, the money will only be given to them 1 month later (through whatever way lah, worst come to worst, they have to self collect). Because you make it troublesome, you reduce the number of gamblers.
Fifth way, implement laws to show how the odds are truly against you by taking a percentage of the winnings each time. Everytime you cash the chips, you give $100 chips but only take back $90 cash. This provides a better impact to the gambler because it's so direct and easy to see that you're losing out, compared to calculating the odds of each table games, it's so much easier to let the gambler see why it's not smart to gamble.
I can type alot more but waste my time lah. If they want to gamble then let them go ruin their lives lah, why I care, ni na beh!
hard la, my personal advice would be to get your group members to brainstorm ideas tackling the many flaws of the education solutions..(or are you doing PI alone currently). I feel that the education is still not good enough, so you will be able think of more innovative ideas and perhaps more feasible ideas in this area against gambling problems. It should be very useful to interview some experts later on in PW.
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