As long as fiat money is still a legal tender and generally accepted for buying and selling, banks are going no where and would continue to be popular with anything relating to peoples finances.
As to poking people and terming anyone who uses banks as old, it’s only stupid to ditch the formal and most used method of financial transactions around the earth.
Banks are still reliable as they’re still needed and widely used today.



This seems to be your grievance with the bank. You’re probably not eligible and I’m pretty sure the bank probably won’t notice and likely won’t care to see you leave either.

It’s quite strange. A business person shouldn’t be a stranger to risks and losses and a loss even through gambling shouldn’t be any different. There may be more to the story cause the victim should have known that with gambling, you either win or you lose. And as a business man, he should have known better than to play around with money meant for something else.
It’s a sad tale that has been once again, attributed to gambling. And I guess it continues to portray the dangers that lurk within compulsive gambling.

Going with a certain amount of money to the casino wouldn’t make just anyone shorten the time to be spent at the casino. There are people who lack time management or/and are weak willed. After planning from home to play with a set amount of money, such individuals get there only to get overwhelmed by it all. After playing and probably losing all the money he came with, as there are sure to be ATM machines in and around the casinos floor, it wouldn’t be difficult to reach into your bank accounts to withdraw some more money to play with.
I think a lot of people lack self discipline to make a plan and actually stick to it.

How a child turns out to be later in his adulthood majorly has to do with his upbringing. And it’s the job of the parents/guardians to bring the child up right and straight.
It’s not natural for parents to spoil their children just cause they want their child to be happy. Parents who needlessly bend over to make their child happy always is cultivating irresponsibility in that child.

How can a child suddenly have a good mindset? When the child has been used to the good life, getting and fulfilling whatever desires that comes to mind. How can that child suddenly start to reject all the luxury given by the parents and strive to live responsibly and independently?
The parents of a child are a huge influence on how the child later turns out to be.

I don’t see any way gambling contributes to the overall well-being of a person no matter how responsible the person gambling is, but I’m open to your thoughts on how it can. As you noted, some people do take gambling as a social and recreational activity and not necessarily as a means of earning an income.

And for those who take gambling as a social/recreational activity, the persons involved can get together and while playing, could talk and catch up and just generally socialize.
I wouldn’t exactly call it a benefit to society as it doesn’t extend these so called benefits to the general public and only those who gamble can reap its benefits if any.

Have you truly been very observant like you said, on things that go down on the forum? I doubt it. If you have been,  you would know that punishments for breaking the law are treated case by case.
Although the punishments for breaking a rule is stated, the enforcers of the rules, being human and with a heart and brain can decide to punish mildly or ignore totally as they deem fit. It depends on the circumstances of the case and the forum member that’s involved. Like you correctly noted, we do make mistakes as humans.
But on a general basis, the rules are pretty much enforced and quickly too. And for the most part, no one is above the law.

I don’t know how much time Ten Hag would seemingly deserve to prove himself at the club. He wasn’t picked as the coach yesterday and he has had in my opinion, enough time to study and understand the capabilities of all his players on the team. Apparently enough time to know and go after players he thought was best to achieve his goals as a manager for the club.
I’m not rooting for his removal as the coach, but I think he has had enough time on the job for his plans to start to show some general improvement in the team.

I agree with the OP. The shorter the time allocated to gambling, the better for the individual as he’s not likely to get addicted to gambling any time soon.

Asides having a specific amount set aside to gamble with whenever you visit the casino or play online with, it’s also important to regulate our time spent playing. Having spent all the amount put aside for gambling, anyone would be tempted to reach into his savings to play some more. Hence the need to regulate and be disciplined in your time and money.

Why do you think casinos don’t have wall clocks on their floor? Much better to keep their players ignorant and less aware of the time as they continue spend their monies playing.

Choosing the right investment opportunity is what people have failed to do and end up getting financially screwed when the chosen investment fails and their money goes down the drain.
It’s always best to spread out your investments and not to dwell on just one source. But what people mainly fail to do whenever choosing through available investments options is their thorough research on their viability.
There are some good alt coins that has shown some promise and made some profit for some people who were willing to take the risk. We shouldn’t also forget that no matter how profitable an investment may seem to be, there’s always a possibility of it failing.

We’ve got little choice than to get used to these renewable sources of energy if we want to have enough to fulfill our energy needs in the distant future. These fossil fuels can be depleted and it takes a really long time for it to build up again.

Sources for these renewable energy may be difficult and expensive to put up but what good project isn’t? And I bet these calls for it being so expensive are made by oil companies and its allies to dissuade the general public from buying into the idea of switching from the traditional energy source to these energy sources that can be renewable and used.
Making the switch to renewable energy sources is in a way, inevitable. But with humans, we’ll naturally be resistant to change.

In my opinion, it shouldn’t be considered a source of income at all cause it literally isn’t. Anything considered a source where you earn money should at the very least, be reliable. Money won from gambling isn’t reliable as it doesn’t come often. It doesn’t come when you want or need it so I don’t see gambling as a source where one could earn money.
If one is looking to earn some extra money, that person should get a side job where the paycheck would actually be steady and reliable. It’s better to look to gambling as an activity rather than a job. The win is more enjoyable then.

Well obviously, rich people make a much better clientele. They’ve got the money to pay and some are wealthy enough or carefree not to care much even if the price has been inflated threefold.
 
Admittedly, a large number of homeless people in the street are from rich families that had made poor financial and life decisions. Likely got addicted to drugs and would slowly drift far away from their home and their parents. These are people that have always gotten it easy in life and has had all their wants and needs provided. Having not had to be responsible for anything while growing up, it would not be so easy to face the reality ofthe common man when the funds and flamboyant lifestyle ends.

While a bunch of rich kids out there are not morally nor financially responsible, there are still some who have been brought up straight with the right morals instilled in them.

Gambling, as an activity does have its fair share in the behavioral change of an individual. That’s if you allow it to have such an effect.
I think It’s only human nature to be happy when the good times comes rolling and quite sad and annoyed when it’s not so rosy anymore. That’s fine and expected. What isn’t expected or fine is taking out your annoyance on someone else(your family). This happens when you allow your emotions overwhelm you. We’re human and have/feel emotions whether you like it or not. It’s left for us to decide how best to show/channel such emotions.

You(OP) should get some help. You said it yourself that you’re addicted. If you want to keep your family happy and together, get some help that would help you quit your addiction.

Retirement may not be on the top of people’s list anymore as you think as more and more people are choosing to remain working than to go into retirement. For fear of constant inflation, it could be harder for someone to comfortably retire as people presently are already on the hunt for second/side jobs in order to stay afloat to withstand the harsh and strong waves of inflation.

I too believe that a lot of people would opt not to work a day in their life but now has little choice than to work if that person wants to provide for himself.
For a comfortable retirement, you should have worked and earned a lot of money. Enough to take care of your personal and health needs and then some for whatever emergencies that may arise. That’s why people strive to get investments that could be bringing in income at regular intervals. That’s one sure way to comfortably safely retire without having to worry about inflation.

A lot of people feel kinda pressured to have such win themselves when they see huge wins being achieved from different people. Such pressure would only make one to go way beyond their financial limits in high and most times, unrealistic hopes and expectations of getting a positive outcome in gambling.
There are a very few stories of success and big wins gotten from gambling compared to the number of people who actually gambles. But apparently, those few stories are more than enough to keep the flames of hope in an individual, constantly burning.

We’re tempted at the prospect of earning more and sometimes, we’re in too much of a haste to put out money into investments that would have losses as the outcome later on.
It’s much better to learn and pick up lessons from the mistakes of others but having personal experiences of mistakes and failures can do the job as well.

And I agree. We often ignore and underestimate intangible benefits as we’ve paid too much attention to the physical ones we can literally see. Almost like having goodwill in your business. That’s an intangible asset any business would want to have and keep.

You’re right. There would possibly be always irresponsible people in the society. And it’s sad that people who chose to be irresponsible in the workplace in most times than not, have a “friend” or knows someone higher up. Employees like these wouldn’t put in much effort for the success of the goals of the company.
Corruption is everywhere and it’s bad for any recruitment process as the suitable candidate would never be chosen for employment. And someone who haven’t earned the power and the responsibility of an office or a position and was simply placed there would go on to abuse such positions without actually getting anything done.

This was an unexpected loss for Newcastle. I didn’t think they could lose to Everton but they conceded 3 goals and lost. Newcastle had things going on well for them and more or less controlled the ball but couldn’t find even a goal. They had more of the ball within their possession but could not do enough worth it to score goals and win. It almost seemed Everton was the one who was hungry for the win. Looking at how many fouls Everton players committed as well as yellow cards given by the referee.
Everton stepped up late during the second half and scored their first goal. Not relenting, they rode on the momentum and scored two more goals, sealing their win.

Manchester United had a good performance that resulted in the win over Chelsea. They could have played so much better and had some more goals scored as they had missed a lot of good opportunities. I didn’t think it was that unbelievable for United to have a win over Chelsea. In that game, I had kept an open mind as both teams aren’t that consistent in their performance for one to comfortably predict true outcome of their games.
But it was a bit obvious from the start of the game on the outcome of Manchester United claiming the win as from the start of the game, United had repeated opportunities but succeeded in only utilizing just two. And apparently, it was enough to get them the win over Chelsea which had a tough time chasing the ball and defending in that game.

I’m still at a loss at exactly what happened in that game as I had expected Manchester City to have won that game and kinda easily too. They didn’t play up to expectations and lost the match as a result. Aston Villa had some really good chances and it deserved the goal later scored in the second half of the game.
Looking at the statistics later on from the game, Aston Villa was more hungry for goals and it was shown with the attempts on goal and shots on target. I was totally surprised at the outcome of this game.
Manchester United on the other hand, had a good game as they faced with Chelsea and won.