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Betting is not an investment, but a gamble

“There are three ways to ruin a man: women, gambling and technician, the most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians”- Georges Pompidou.

Gambling can best be defined as a social disease, motivated by economic reasons. Gambling and betting is the worst "source of income" that anybody can ever depend on. Any country whose citizens depend on such chances for survival is at the verge of losing many of its subjects to poverty, scarcity and lack.

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