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Posted: 15:54 - 18 Dec 2019 Post subject: Money for nothing... |
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BBC News wrote: | Bet365: UK's best-paid boss hits £323m jackpot |
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-50834994
This may be a bit of a shock but I don't consider myself one of those "tax the rich" socialist types. This story made me feel a little sick.
Consider: Bob Dudley, boss of BP, had his wages "slashed" to $15m by a shareholder revolt. BP... arch-nemesis of tree huggers they may be but no one could deny they make stuff. Get the oil, refine the oil, ship the oil. Stuff is being done for the money! Jeff Fairburn gets £50m for building houses, Jeremy Darroch at Sky gets £17m... basically lots of big wedge for tangible product.
WTF is Bet365? A fecking economic parasite that only produces misery for its client-base. Of less benefit to society than even the government ____________________ Husqvarna Vitpilen 401, Yamaha XSR700, Honda Rebel, Yamaha DT175, Suzuki SV650 (loan) Fazer 600, Keeway Superlight 125, 50cc turd scooter |
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Dammit! It isn't my lucky day
Please be careful about thread titles chaps, false hopes can be built ____________________ Chickenystripgeezer's Biking Life (Latest update 19/10/18) Belgium, France, Italy, Austria tour 2016 Picos de Europa, Pyrenees and French Alps tour 2017 Scotland Trip 1, now with BONUS FEATURE edit, 5/10/19, on page 2 Scotland Trip 2 Luxembourg, Black Forest, Switzerland, Vosges Trip 2017
THERE'S MILLIONS OF CHICKENSTRIPS OUT THERE! |
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I had a sister who worked a bookies as a part time job many years ago. The majority of people who went to bookies were the people who were on benefits.
Makes you think, your hard earned tax money is being used to pay people on benefits....so that they can go to the bookies (and make this man stupidly rich)
hey, thats how society works now.... ____________________ My wife asked me to get her something that goes from 0-100 in under 5 seconds for her birthday. ......................I got her a bathroom scale. |
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Just to be clear: the boss of Bet365 is Denise Coates... a woman! She's worth close to ten billion quid. Yes, a billionaire
Jeez, at least you know that some of the lotto money goes back to the government and charities (even if you disagree with exactly how it's spent.)
Of course she does a lot of work for charity herself. A good chunk of which goes abroad... ____________________ Husqvarna Vitpilen 401, Yamaha XSR700, Honda Rebel, Yamaha DT175, Suzuki SV650 (loan) Fazer 600, Keeway Superlight 125, 50cc turd scooter |
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tl;dr Gambling can affect brain chemistry - it's not only hard drugs that can fuck you up, kids! (The "near miss" thing is particularly insightful.)
Although I understand gambling addiction it's the same way I understand there's no air in space - something nebulous and far away. I can't see how I could manage to traipse down to a bookies with some vain hope but the same, sad outcome every week.
We need to teach the brain to get bored of things that are harmful - boredom is more powerful than fear in this pampered age. ____________________ Husqvarna Vitpilen 401, Yamaha XSR700, Honda Rebel, Yamaha DT175, Suzuki SV650 (loan) Fazer 600, Keeway Superlight 125, 50cc turd scooter |
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Bikes and the like at least incorporate one of my favourite phrases plausible deniability, yeah, I err... need a litre bike 'cos I ride to Wales once a year to see my granddad and err... it's like super annoying the rest of the time and I really don't enjoy it, honest! ____________________ Husqvarna Vitpilen 401, Yamaha XSR700, Honda Rebel, Yamaha DT175, Suzuki SV650 (loan) Fazer 600, Keeway Superlight 125, 50cc turd scooter |
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Loot boxes are preparing kids to be gamblers. |
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MMO RPG companies were addicting kids to those games then encouraging gambling and squeezing cash out of them while attacking other companies through the courts that mitigated some of the damage they were doing before lootboxes became an issue. Problems which are worse than a simple lootbox plus they can hide their gambling behind a more complex mechanism.
That looks like a good article. |
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 4 years, 128 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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