Why can some people just never have enough?

seadoug

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Not an NBA fan, so haven't delved into it, but read somewhere the mafia might be involved somehow.
No excuses for those associated with the NBA and there should be no legal forgiveness if guilty, but sometimes circumstances and influence of third parties who may be seen as real threats to personal well being and the well being of family members, may have an impact beyond what might appear as simple greed. May or may not have anything to do with anything. We likely will never know the minutia of it all.
 
Many adults over their adult lives have been so focused on wealth, that getting more becomes an addictive obsession, regardless of monetary need. That is especially true for the many that also have gambled all their lives that becomes a psychological reward when winning much like Pavlov's dog hearing the bell ring. And of course, gambling at elite levels often puts one in social groups of those that ignore laws as a badge of cool badness.
 
We live in a society fashioned on consumption. This taps into people worst traits, and over-consumption is one.

When it comes to alcoholism or gambling, that's a whole other thing. There are psychological traits we all have that are being exploited by those wanting is to participate in their games. In the end it's all down to the same thing: move the money from your account to their account.

Of course, we each have a temperament, and a personality. For example, my brother is a gambler - horses, sports, whatever. Me? I've been to Vegas three times and have never laid a bet (my visits were business oriented). I've no interest in gambling.
 
Aaron Hernandez of the New England Patriots signed a $40million contract before he killed his brother-in-law, Odin Lloyd. Why would a young stud like Hernandez do such a stupid thing? Speculations were that Lloyd, being jealous because he never made it to the NFL, tried to blackmail Hernandez by threatening to expose his being bi-sexual.

In today’s society, he would have been accepted for what or who he was, but he may have thought if the word got out about his sexuality preferences, it may have embarrassed his family, girlfriend and new baby.

What’s that line in the movie “A Bronx Take?” “The saddest thing in life is wasted talent.”
 
Why do some of us eat too much, take drugs, smoke, etc…

IMO it’s just another form of addiction to get a rush from the thrill.

After a while it takes bigger thrills to get the same rush.

After a while it all just seems to collapse under its own weight or maybe there is a bit of self sabotage involved.
 
A few years back, I read an article about a guy who used to be the editor of whichever magazine it is that published the list of the world's richest people. He said that every year after the list was published, he got angry phone calls from a lot of the people on the list furious with him because they accused him of listing their net worth as lower than it actually was ("You SOB; I'm worth more than 12 Billion; it's 15 billion!")

He said the first couple of times it happened, he asked them why they were so angry, since even if he had made a mistake, they were still among the richest in the world and he said the reply was always that if their worth on this year's list was even a small amount lower than last year, they got snide phone calls from the other richest saying stuff like "I see you're down to only 12 Billion there, Bill; not doing too good, huh?" and they felt humiliated. (Can I get an "Aw, poor billionaires!"?)
 
OneEyedDiva said:
I posted this reply in the other thread about this news:
Why these already rich people who have careers that will keep adding to their wealth do these asinine things to make "extra" money is beyond me! Greed knows no bounds and common sense obviously did not abound.
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I think the excess accumolation of money or goods is a substitute for something less easily defined.
 
VaughanJB said:
We live in a society fashioned on consumption. This taps into people worst traits, and over-consumption is one.

When it comes to alcoholism or gambling, that's a whole other thing. There are psychological traits we all have that are being exploited by those wanting is to participate in their games. In the end it's all down to the same thing: move the money from your account to their account.

Of course, we each have a temperament, and a personality. For example, my brother is a gambler - horses, sports, whatever. Me? I've been to Vegas three times and have never laid a bet (my visits were business oriented). I've no interest in gambling.
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This is an astute answer, as a former croupier I've had a close look at gamblers gambling. They're a peculiar breed.
After watching a particular documentary about gambling I formed an opinion that gambling is like drug use. When the first card is dealt or the call for no more bets goes out the gambler is committed and that's when the drug, adrenaline, kicks in.
One gambler said he liked gambling better than sex. Another, wealthy gambler, asked how much he'd lost. On being told he said that he could calculate his income by the minute and that he would leave wealthier than when he arrived.
Casinos and the gaming industry are built on losers.
 

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