Not to be an armchair detective but I find it interesting reading about the gun lobbies all the people he (Paddock) shot and now even a security guard. They mention very quickly in almost "by the way" kind of way that this guy spent about a million dollars / night on high stakes gambling. As he had heaps of money it almost automaticly excludes his addictions and the problems that came from it. It shows me that the gambling lobby in the US must be almost as big as the gun lobby.
Did you know that one gambler commits suicide every 40 secs around the world? That means that through my many years of addiction more people have died through gambling addiction than during the entire WWII in Europe. That is nuts.
I know that karma usualy does a 360 degree turn and all the madness unleashed through the groth of this industry will eventually have a profound effect life for many people. My hope is that people become aware faster. Because looking at 6 gambling ads per break on TV is pretty far from normal. It is what you call slow programing of the brain. The fact that the gambling industry desperately is trying to form a new generation of gambling addicts must be stopped now and preferably by regulating the amount of ads we see in media on a daily basis.
I read somewhere the the last words the sibling of the shooter said to him were 'what you have just lost $4 million'.
Go figure....................
Does not surprise me at all. Only thing that still surprises me is all those with their heads still in the sand saying It was everything else but his addiction that did this.
When I heard it was Las Vegas, gambling problems were the first thing that sprang to mind. However much money he had it's not normal to spend millions a night. I suspect there are some very persuasive and powerful voices working overtime to play this down and it's succeeded. Doesn't surprise me though. The industry here has been working on normalising it and positioning gambling as 'entertainment' from the moment the Bliar government deregulated it. It's been entrenched even deeper and longer in the US.
It's all bureaucracy, governments make so much money from gambling. It's replaced alcohol and cigarettes for income. Apparently problem gambling figures have plateaued! It's all denial. If they deny it they can pretend it's not happening. The land of credit! It's everything but the truth. Reality is, the man is dead so who knows why he did it. That's not the behaviour of a normal person. It's very sad. He'd obviously been planning it for a long time, or so we're lead to believe.
Let’s not take away from the fact the guy was obviously a psychopath. It’s not unusual for someone who is well off to gamble serious amounts of money. You know the saying one mans pound is another mans fortune. Even if he blew 4 million in the leed up to his slaughter. He planned it for almost a year. Most likely scenario is he knew he wasn’t going to need the cash so blew through it.
As for advertising on tv the rise in social media meant that more companies starting advertising online. It’s a lot cheaper and you have a global audience for your products. A prime time slot on tv is somewhere around 300 thousand pound. So as we see on the high street as more companies go online. The gambling industry saw an advantage and moved in on the turf both on national television and the high street. Although they’re all annoying there is a way to combat the ads. Online use an ad blocker . Television I usually pause the program for ten minutes then fast forward through the adverts or watch them through the record option which I also fast forward the adverts. TBH I hate all adverts as much as I hate the gambling ones. Whilst we’re on the subject I seen a box of krave the kids cereal in Asda and on the box a roulette wheel promoting their new roulette style different chocolate flavoured cereal. I could type all night the things I’ve noticed. Apps for kids with slot style music and a roulette wheel win x amount that day. The cynic in me says there’s something in that? The only thing I can do as they say is keep my side of the street clean.
Its on Repeat repeat repeat. I am reading alot these days about how our brains work and all this slow programing from media is the same "chock and awe" manipulation as it allways has been. It angers me that all social and political oposition to excessive advertising seems to be swept aside. When did you ever hear anyone saying "Its too much"?
I looked at RTL a German TV station just to get some comparison and I found next to no adverts at the time on online gambling or lotteries or scratch cards etc. The policy seems to vary from country to country. I am not saying Germans dont send gambling adverts. I just didnt see it when I watched TV wich is in itself suprising.
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