New Posts For Thread: Gambling white paper: Gamblers losing £1,000 a day to face checkshttps://community.betfair.com/horse_racing/go/thread/view/94102/31800683/gambling-white-paper-gamblers-losing-1000-a-day-to-face-checksGamblers who are losing £1,000 a day are expected to face checks as part of new, tougher gambling regulations.Sources say these will kick in when a gambler loses £1,000 in 24 hours , or £2,000 over 90 days. How these will be carried out is as yetAnother recent one is the completely absurd commitment to 'free' childcare for babies to school age. Mainstream media welcome it with open arms, equally clueless. This is the modern world alas, as long as twatter is happy, everyone is happy.https://community.betfair.com/horse_racing/go/thread/view/94102/31800683/gambling-white-paper-gamblers-losing-1000-a-day-to-face-checks?post_id=563118711#563118711Another recent one is the completely absurd commitment to 'free' childcare for babies to school age. Mainstream media welcome it with open arms, equally clueless. This is the modern world alas, as long as twatter is happy, everyone is happy.Mon, 01 May 2023 10:06:39 -0500Most of today's 'issues' can be traced back to state intervention. Intervening on aspects that they are actually clueless about, or have zero comprehension of the unintended consequences. Either that, or in the short term, they don't care.https://community.betfair.com/horse_racing/go/thread/view/94102/31800683/gambling-white-paper-gamblers-losing-1000-a-day-to-face-checks?post_id=563118707#563118707Most of today's 'issues' can be traced back to state intervention. Intervening on aspects that they are actually clueless about, or have zero comprehension of the unintended consequences. Either that, or in the short term, they don't care.Mon, 01 May 2023 10:03:04 -0500I'd suggest that the biggest "problem gamblers" are the firms and their software engineers who design addiction into their products.Precious little attention to them....https://community.betfair.com/horse_racing/go/thread/view/94102/31800683/gambling-white-paper-gamblers-losing-1000-a-day-to-face-checks?post_id=563118699#563118699I'd suggest that the biggest "problem gamblers" are the firms and their software engineers who design addiction into their products.Precious little attention to them....Mon, 01 May 2023 10:00:23 -0500This whole issue came about due to a very odd mixture of emotion, truth and distortions of truth.It is true that many people (mostly men) over the years have been destroyed, sometimes very literally, by gambling. And they sometimes tell very gut wrenhttps://community.betfair.com/horse_racing/go/thread/view/94102/31800683/gambling-white-paper-gamblers-losing-1000-a-day-to-face-checks?post_id=563118619#563118619This whole issue came about due to a very odd mixture of emotion, truth and distortions of truth.It is true that many people (mostly men) over the years have been destroyed, sometimes very literally, by gambling. And they sometimes tell very gut wrenMon, 01 May 2023 09:34:53 -0500I don't know dave, but there are probably conflicting ideologies there. I'm not sure western liberalists will feel that measures of societal control like the threat of throwing gay people off the top of high rise buildings is the shade of nirvana thehttps://community.betfair.com/horse_racing/go/thread/view/94102/31800683/gambling-white-paper-gamblers-losing-1000-a-day-to-face-checks?post_id=563118557#563118557I don't know dave, but there are probably conflicting ideologies there. I'm not sure western liberalists will feel that measures of societal control like the threat of throwing gay people off the top of high rise buildings is the shade of nirvana theMon, 01 May 2023 09:13:20 -0500Its left of centre ideology.(The opposite of laissez-faire)As Ive said numerous times on here, any party can propose any ideological bill.The Tories have implemented numerous left wing policies over the last number of years.https://community.betfair.com/horse_racing/go/thread/view/94102/31800683/gambling-white-paper-gamblers-losing-1000-a-day-to-face-checks?post_id=563118551#563118551Its left of centre ideology.(The opposite of laissez-faire)As Ive said numerous times on here, any party can propose any ideological bill.The Tories have implemented numerous left wing policies over the last number of years.Mon, 01 May 2023 09:10:24 -0500Including, of course, bad weatherhttps://community.betfair.com/horse_racing/go/thread/view/94102/31800683/gambling-white-paper-gamblers-losing-1000-a-day-to-face-checks?post_id=563118543#563118543Including, of course, bad weatherMon, 01 May 2023 09:07:15 -0500Are countries like KSA and Qatar "liberalist"?https://community.betfair.com/horse_racing/go/thread/view/94102/31800683/gambling-white-paper-gamblers-losing-1000-a-day-to-face-checks?post_id=563118541#563118541Are countries like KSA and Qatar "liberalist"?Mon, 01 May 2023 09:06:53 -0500#unlimitedhttps://community.betfair.com/horse_racing/go/thread/view/94102/31800683/gambling-white-paper-gamblers-losing-1000-a-day-to-face-checks?post_id=563118523#563118523#unlimitedMon, 01 May 2023 08:59:44 -0500The liberalist ideology in my view is that for anything that happens to people in society that is negative, there is an intervention by the state that can fix it. And that the state has limited resources in trying to achieve it. It's not party politihttps://community.betfair.com/horse_racing/go/thread/view/94102/31800683/gambling-white-paper-gamblers-losing-1000-a-day-to-face-checks?post_id=563118519#563118519The liberalist ideology in my view is that for anything that happens to people in society that is negative, there is an intervention by the state that can fix it. And that the state has limited resources in trying to achieve it. It's not party politiMon, 01 May 2023 08:59:21 -0500