The Rise of Mobile Gambling Is Leaving People Ruined and Unable to Quit

guest · Sep 6, 2022

Financial catastrophe is now only a few clicks away
By Maxwell Strachan - September 6, 2022

It didn’t take long before Jason was hearing about gambling “all day every day,” he said.

Soon enough, however, he preferred online gambling. The casinos, he came to believe, were less efficient—“too much non-gambling time,” he said—and led to questions about where he had been.
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By comparison, his phone allowed him to be “100 percent plugged in” from anywhere, without people asking questions. “I could do everything you could do at a casino on my phone,” he said. But, he added, “I didn’t have to explain where I was or anything like that. I didn't have to answer to anybody.”

“For me, being able to just sit in bed and go on my phone and gamble made it almost impossible to stop,” Nick said. “I can't just get rid of my phone.”
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Since he stopped gambling in May, Jason has noticed with fresh eyes just how prevalent the gambling industry has become.

Gambling commercials play all the time on the radio and when he watches sports, and the leagues themselves have signed official partnerships with companies like FanDuel and DraftKings.

“It is everywhere now,” Jason said. “It's kind of disgusting when you start to look at it from the outside in.”
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