Quote from: DiMarxist on March 11, 2025, 04:14:54 PM

I Stumbled on a news that "Betting Companies in Uganda Luring Students to lost their Futures" with fake bonuses and promise of big wins. According to the explanation, the time you use in the casino affect your future and life which would have been used for studies. They use an idiomatic expression to portray the point by saying that " robbers came to steal money which your properties", but casinos came to steal your time, which will affect everything in your life in the future. So their brighten futures only ended up in gambling. And they further said the 30% of the students are well engaged in online gambling instead of focusing their students. And for "Sports Betting" and the money that is meant for tuition fees were used in this act.
And that prompt the regulators to come up and say that gambling companies are exploiting the students with unrealistic wins. And research shows that 97% of the students used mobile phones to gamble online during school hours as a disguised as entertainment.

This is an alarming issues concerning students.
What is your say in this critical issue against gambling companies?

It seems like common sense to restrict gambling to 18 years old or maybe ever higher like 21. Our brains are still developing through those years and are especially vulnerable to addiction forming games, so governments should take a lot of care in enforcing the law around gambling. It's actually better for casinos and bookmakers to have a lot of more responsible gamblers because they are more likely to play consistently over a long time. A true addict is going to burn through everything and then just be throwing scraps at a casino, but someone who is educated yet still enjoys it for fun could turn into a life long customer if they're treated right. Universities and colleges should definitely offer support and steer students away from gambling at a young age with the right education.