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There was a post yesterday on /r/smallbusiness about helping an employee who had a heroin addiction and helping one who had a gambling addiction. The overwhelming consensus was that the gambling addiction was worse, which is not what I would have expected. But the logic made sense from the financial perspective: you can only use so much heroin in a day, but you can spend an unlimited amount on gambling.


I feel like this is backwards? When you reach your heroine limit, you die. It's pretty final. And, most people don't have unlimited money with which to gamble.


A dizzy, barely uncomfortable bed-ridden weekend and a strip of Orange paper,

vs.

A lifelong proclivity to quantize, metrify, and reduce all social interactions to transactional objects that exist soley to be leveraged.

The latter also happens to drug addicts, but the it is a psychological phenomenon that can be stymied with medication.

Unfortunately, no analogous chemical exists (yet!) for the similarly inflected urge to gamble.


Another thing with gambling is the drug (cash) is always around you and in your hands. Easy to lose value for it.


Every time you use heroin, it works. Gambling works maybe 1/10 times.


Not really, addictions usually need higher quantities and frequency.




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