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BlindSite
Feb 8, 2009

Papercut posted:

I'm much more likely to go to a SB party if my team *isn't* in it, because if my team is I'm gonna be too stressed and want to focus entirely on the game

Yeah this. For a game where I feel like I have a stake. Leave me the gently caress alone. I'm watching alone.

If I dont care I just want a close good game and will be social as can be.

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BlindSite
Feb 8, 2009

I dont care if he bangs women 3 at a time outside his marriage with a bottle of Jack in one hand and some Viagra in the other.
If he wins on Sundays.

BlindSite
Feb 8, 2009

Sometimes the last seat on a flight is the laat seat on a flight

BlindSite
Feb 8, 2009

There are hundreds of ways you can assist family without ending up broke and destitute if you have anything approaching real money. The problem is that they don't help people in the slightly slower but far more effective long term ways. They buy three houses. They buy five cars and give cash away for people to start businesses and other stupid poo poo like that. There is a line between not helping anyone and being cold and selfish and not ending up broke.

The problem is young men think they're invincible and athletes think they're infallible and their hangers on think they've hit the lottery when they hit big.

BlindSite
Feb 8, 2009

The337th posted:

A one off financial literacy class isn't gonna add up to much against what your long term exposure to understanding finances was. People just repeat learned behavior on money like they would anything, which helps feed the whole generational poverty problem outside of the systemic part of the problem. If you grow up around people with means who are protective of that wealth you'll likely have some learned instinct for also protecting your wealth, and you'll actually have older relatives who have the knowledge to at least try to prevent you from loving it up in the first place.

It's better than nothing to take a shot at waking up some 22 year old to the reality of how fast that money can evaporate, but it can only do so much. Maybe if the players were getting more of their deserved slice of the pie it wouldn't be quite as crucial for a brief crash course to save them from helping family wrong.

It's also not mom needing a new garage if you're talking real poverty, it's mom being in an unsustainable living situation that *needs* to be solved, and if it's mom in that situation then its probably also siblings and grandma and so on for people who aren't just some fringe grifter family member. There's a difference between wanting a new car and not even having reliable transportation it takes to survive. Luxury poo poo is an entirely different issue that doesn't fit a conversation about athletes coming out of generational poverty.

It wouldn't, players end up broke for the same reasons the numbers they burn through just go up.

It's an education, culture and discipline problem. A single seminar isn't enough to make someone financially literate, but it's enough to make someone realise they don't know what they're doing and should break off a small percentage of that nest egg to ensure their future and their families' future is secure.

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