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Does that really impact a lot of people? The total size of the legal sports betting industry is $11B, which is only about 0.04% of US GDP.

https://www.espn.com/espn/betting/story/_/id/39563784/sports...

I am not on Facebook, but my wife is. According to her there are countless posts from women complaining that their husbands / boyfriends are wasting their money on sports betting.

So while it's a small percentage of GDP, it is a much larger percentage of their budget.

I am Facebook friends with a lot of women and haven't seen a single such complaint. That's obviously not a real population survey but if it was really a widespread problem then I think I would have seen it.
I'll have to ask her, but I'm pretty sure that this is in closed groups and not people posting about it on their wall.