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.
This guys dad gambles
If we’re talking about those who show up at high stakes poker tables, they are, at heart, businesspeople, those who you wouldn’t expect to yield to anything/anyone. It’s a demographic thing. They aren’t all bad though.
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.
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.
Addictions are often a coping mechanism
