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147 sats \ 14 replies \ @SimpleStacker OP 9 Mar \ parent \ on: I’m a College Student. Gen Z Sports Betting Is Wrecking My Friends’ Lives | WSJ Stacker_Sports econ

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

27 sats \ 11 replies \ @Undisciplined 9 Mar

The cure for being an idiot is being an idiot?

132 sats \ 5 replies \ @SimpleStacker OP 9 Mar

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.

75 sats \ 0 replies \ @unboiled 10 Mar

Honestly all the examples in the article are pretty low grade.

If they ever rediscover wallstreetbets, we're in trouble.

38 sats \ 3 replies \ @Undisciplined 9 Mar

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

68 sats \ 2 replies \ @grayruby 9 Mar

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

58 sats \ 1 reply \ @Undisciplined 9 Mar

Tell me those were Canadian dollars at least

82 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby 9 Mar

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

111 sats \ 4 replies \ @Scoresby 9 Mar

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.

171 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford 9 Mar

When one refuses to learn a lesson you are doomed to repeat it.

129 sats \ 2 replies \ @Undisciplined 9 Mar

Learn or die, dummies

208 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker OP 9 Mar

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.