• LordAmplifier@pawb.social
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    3 months ago

    Do you want free money? Of course you do! Here’s my secret trick to make BIG money in NO time: start gambling! What’s the worst that could happen? You go in with 100 money and come back out with none. But the best case scenario? Infinite money. Start gambling today!

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      3 months ago

      serious advice: don’t.

      gambling is a scam designed to extract money out of poor-witting desperate souls. don’t start, it’s designed to be addictive, but mathematically, on average you always lose money with gambling.

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        3 months ago

        The rich get to put their money into a big pot with an acceptable rate of return on investment. Next to no risk, cause the house always wins.

          • Claudia
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            3 months ago

            Because high rewards seem bigger than small rates of return.

      • celeste
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        2 months ago

        It’s mathematically provable that in most gambles it’s stacked against you and the potebtial ganis are not worth the risk. Things like the Monty Hall Goat Problemshow that humans are bad at intuitively dealing with chances.

        • Smorty [she/her]
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          2 months ago

          People need a proof for that? Shouldn’t it be obvious? The casinos need to make money so show, so of course they are getting more out of it than they are paying…