Gambling can be fun if you go into it expecting to lose a set amount of money. I always quit when I lose my budget, or I rebound enough from a loss to pay for parking.

Day trading is gambling.

Long term stock market investing is investing.

Buying stocks is investing, not gambling

There are both. Each actually comes from separate legal areas. Prediction markets were a loophole, and gambling was a judicial precedent

Addiction will become more prevalent because it's in your pocket

Addiction will become far more prevalent because these companies are soending billions studying how users behave to maximize the amount of gambling each user does, learning how best to lure them back after a user stops gambling

I don't have a problem with gambling being legal, but doing it like this will be an absolute disaster. At a minimum, they need the cigarette treatment -- no advertising, limits on how/when it can be done

Users shouldn't be getting push notifications to bet on fucking ping pong at 2am because the algorithm determines that was the best way to turn a gambling problem into a full blown addiction

Also, Wall Street.

Its only recently that we can now do it from our pocket.

Yeah, and that convenience has made a huge difference.