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383 points toomuchtodo | 1 comments | 31 Oct 25 17:42 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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brettgriffin ◴[31 Oct 25 19:05 UTC] No.45775525[source]▶
The problem isn't the 70M people who placed bets, its the ~25M with broken risk aversion.

These are mostly men, and a very specific type of men. You can try to curtail their access to gambling but we're missing the underlying problem.

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michaelt ◴[31 Oct 25 19:46 UTC] No.45775946[source]▶
Has society ever addressed an underlying psychological problem successfully?

Because when it comes to the underlying psychological causes of homelessness and drug addiction and school shootings and violent extremism my impression is we don’t really do much.

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1. owenversteeg ◴[01 Nov 25 10:04 UTC] No.45780497[source]▶
Absolutely. A lot of it is upsettingly simple; make a given population wealthy, well-educated, with a strong community and you will slash rates of these issues tenfold. My home state of New Hampshire is one of the wealthiest, best-educated states in the US and despite easy access to tons of dangers (unlimited gun access, some of the cheapest vodka prices in the Western world, legal gambling, et cetera) we have low rates of the associated disorders. The NH homicide rate is on par with much of Europe, for example, nearly unheard of for a US state.