Recently, Zhang Jike dominated the headlines of major social media.
The beginning of the incident, from netizens broke the news.
A netizen said that because Zhang Jike could not pay off the gambling debt, he passed on the private photos of himself and Jing Tian to the creditor, asking the creditor to find Jing Tian for money.
Just when netizens thought that everything was a rumor, in the early morning of March 31, reporter Li Weiao came to sit on this melon.
Later, he even posted that Zhang Jike was indeed suspected of owing debts, and when the creditor used a video to collect debts from the woman, he declared that it was a gambling debt.
Although Zhang Jike's team responded quickly, the turmoil could not be avoided.
As early as before, the news that Zhang Jike owed debts because of gambling was repeated:
Some entertainment records exposed that he borrowed 3 million yuan from his ex-girlfriend Yuan Shanshan and never paid it back, and Yuan Shanshan found a big brother in society to get the money back;
also said that Zhang Jike also borrowed 10 million yuan from Tian Liang, and later made a very unpleasant trouble.
This time, it was said that he mortgaged 1800w with Jing Tian's private photo, causing Jing Tian to be blackmailed by the creditor for 25 million.
Although it is still unclear whether Zhang Jike is suspected of gambling, the word gambling has triggered extensive discussion among netizens.
After all, there are many examples of families ruined and separated wives because of gambling.
One "Zhang Jike" fell,
Many "Zhang Jike" remain
In 2021, I saw this news:
An employee of Tencent left a suicide note on an internal forum because he owed a huge amount of six million -
There are only a few crosses, and the people who see it are shocking.
When he first started gambling, he made 360,000 yuan at will, so much so that he felt that he was a genius in gambling. As everyone knows, it is just a trap set by the website.
From a few thousand pieces at the beginning to tens of thousands, 100,000. The bigger he gambled, the more he gambled and lost, and the more he gambled.
When I woke up, I found that my assets were gambled and I had left a lot of debt.
What to do? Keep betting on the flip.
1.3 million for banks, 3 million for colleagues and friends, 950,000 for wives... He took the money that allowed him to pay off gambling debts and wash his hands in the golden basin, and continued to gamble and lose.
He gambled and lost not just money, but the rest of his life.
In the end, he committed suicide by leaving a suicide note, and also left behind his wife, who was in huge debt for him and was more than 9 months pregnant...
Many people feel that gambling is far away from us, when these two words are mentioned, the first impression that comes to mind is either the action of "God of Gamblers" in the TV series to shake the dice wantonly and dashing, or a table of people playing poker after tea and dinner, or rubbing mahjong - small gambling is pleasant, big gambling hurts the body.
However, relevant data shows that in 2020, the number of people participating in online gambling in mainland China exceeded 11 million, with an average of 1 in 80 netizens participating in gambling.
If you're curious about the fate of these people?
There is such a saying, if you accidentally get infected with gambling habits, go and quit gambling:
Some people are separated because of gambling wives,
Some people go bankrupt because of gambling,
Some have even lost their lives to gambling.
One encounter after another is shocking, but these never wake up a person who pretends to sleep.
The ending of celebrity gambling is still being sniffed, worried about ordinary people?
According to estimates by the World Health Organization, global players have lost $400 billion a year in gambling since 2016.
Relevant data shows that China contributed 870 million Australian dollars to Melbourne's Crown Casino in 2016, equivalent to more than 4.5 billion yuan, which is about 12.3 million yuan a day!
Imagine such a high amount of debt, which is distributed on the head of any ordinary person is a thunderbolt.
There will always be countless kinds of data to prove that gamblers win more and lose less, but unfortunately these data are meaningless to gamblers, after all, for them, gambling is a game that never stops, and it is difficult to stop when it starts.
Because those gamblers always fantasize that they are like the gamblers in the TV series, able to become rich overnight, sitting on tens of billions of net worth and countless luxury cars and mansions.
However, the reality is always brutal, and the most common occurrence in casinos is not an overnight getaway, but an overnight crash.
Once you start gambling, your life will be stuck in a quagmire and you will not be able to turn over.
How much money is not enough to gamble
Gambling not only ruined a person's life, but also put his family in a situation of irreparable disaster.
Taiwan's famous godfather-level figure Pig Ge Liang is a typical one.
He is a famous Taiwanese host, worth hundreds of millions at his peak, when a day's income was enough to buy two houses in the best area of Taipei.
But because of gambling, he ran away from home for the second time to run into debts.
After that, he reappeared, came back for 8 years, and collected 300 million Taiwan dollars, but these huge Taiwan dollars were not enough to pay off the debts he owed.
In the 10 years that Pig Geliang collected debts, his daughter Xie Jinyan was physically and mentally exhausted by his debts, and directly asked the security guard to stop her father at her personal concert, unwilling to meet him.
After her father died, Xie Jinyan forgave him, and she and her family held a grand memorial service for her father, but those debt collectors ran to the spiritual hall to ask for debts, and they did not let them go because Pig Geliang was dead.
It doesn't matter if Brother Pig Liang died, and his family, after all, it is natural for them to pay the father's debt.
His daughter has a clean life, but she must be shrouded in the shadow of paying her father's debts early, and she must not turn over.
Some people are bound for life because of their father's gambling, and some people watch their implicated parents jump off the building because of gambling.
Because death becomes a relief compared to gambling debts that cannot be repaid.
On the eve of Chinese New Year's Eve 2021, an elderly couple in Hong Kong jumped from upstairs.
And all this is due to their son Liu Jiawei's gambling debt.
In fact, in the early years, Liu's father and Liu mother had bought a house in Hong Kong, and had a lot of savings, and even the two of them had a lot of pensions.
Unfortunately, his son is not an honest person, and he asked his parents for a large amount of money under the pretext of starting a business.
When the two heard it, they felt that their son was going to have a chance, and without saying a word, they gave all their savings for many years to their son, but unexpectedly, the son took the money to the casino.
At the beginning, Liu Jiawei did make a lot of money, and his courage became bigger and bigger, and in the end, he bought a large amount of money and put all the money in, but he lost a lot of money.
Liu Jiawei was stunned, not knowing what to do.
He took advice from his friend, signed up for a loan shark, turned around and went back into the casino.
Soon, the money lost more and more, and the usury also snowballed, and in just a few years, Liu Jiawei already owed millions of dollars.
It was not until the loan shark company came to block the door that Liu's father and mother knew the truth, but it was too late, and they were reluctant to let their son die, and mortgaged their house, fortunately there was enough money.
Unfortunately, my son went back to casinos after this and was in a huge debt.
Chasing is chasing, fighting is fighting, the two of them will not help, because they have nothing left to give their son.
Liu's father and mother felt more and more hopeless, so they simply decided to jump off the building together to find relief.
Liu Jiawei knew what his parents thought and decided to join.
But when he saw the blood gushing from his parents when they fell to the ground, and his body twisted on the ground, he regretted it, and called the police with trembling hands.
In prison, he shed tears, but these tears could no longer be exchanged for the happy family he used to be.
This pile, one thing makes people feel shocked at a glance.
In gambling, too many people are desperate to think that this gamble will definitely bring them benefits, but the more they gamble, the more they lose.
But it is this time and time again that I lose in exchange for a stronger belief that I can definitely win, after all, I have invested so much.
Anyway, hundreds of thousands are lost, even if you lose hundreds of thousands, but it is this psychology of loss aversion to the whole family that kills.
When you lose the whole family, how can you be willing to stop again, just make a mistake again and again, and why not recover without fetters?
Bet to the end, and lose the bottom line
Gamblers who are caught in a catastrophe find that there is no way to lose in the end, and even the bottom line is finally dispersed, after all, what is the sense of morality and the bottom line for them?
Among them, the most reviled "gambler" is Mo Huanjing.
Mo Huanjing, as a nanny, used her mobile phone to gamble online, lost more than 60,000 yuan, and in order to raise gambling funds, she planned to set fire to her employer, Ms. Zhu, and then took the opportunity to put out the fire to get a payment.
Unexpectedly, the arson was out of control, resulting in the death of Ms. Zhu and three minors, and of the five people present, only she survived.
The reason for her decision is simply that her employer is too good for her.
During her period of work, her employer not only gave her a raise, but also agreed to borrow 114,000 yuan from her employer on the pretext of buying a house in her hometown.
She relied on her employer's kindness to her, acted recklessly step by step, trampled on her employer's bottom line, and eventually killed her employer.
Do you think the bottom line for gamblers ends here?
It's much more than that.
There are gamblers, because the gambling capital is not enough, rob fellow villagers, and after getting the money, they even have to return to cover their fellow villagers alive;
There are gamblers, in order to pay off their debts, despite the fact that their wives are still pregnant with their children, forcibly killing their wives, which are later pretended to be a fire;
There are gamblers, because their girlfriends refuse to borrow money, they even stab their girlfriends 196 times...
The funny thing is that when these gamblers think about how to make money back from the casino, even if they violate their own moral bottom line to earn gambling funds, Stanley Ho, known as the "gambling king", has never gambled in his life and does not allow his family to gamble.
In an interview with TV, he confessed:
"I always advise people to gamble as a form of play and entertainment, and never overgamble, because if you bet too much, you may not win."
People known as gambling kings never gamble, and even persuade people to win if they don't gamble, but those gamblers are crazy to make desperate bets and want to seize the last opportunity, how is this not a joke?
In fact, the most terrible thing about gambling is not that there is no money, nor is it discredited, but that it greatly stimulates the purest malice that exists deep in people's hearts.
After all, money and fame can still be earned, but once the deep malice in the heart is aroused, it is too late, after all, we cannot know how far those who are involved in gambling can have no lower limit.
Buffett once had a famous experiment: only one bullet in a 6-hole revolver, let you shoot yourself in the head, if you win, give you $1 million, would you like to?
Many people refused, but when the experiment was upgraded to 100 bullet holes, or only 1 bullet, many people agreed.
Although the experiment was reduced to one percent, there was still a danger of death, and it was not foolproof, so why were these people willing to fight for this opportunity?
Many interviewees mentioned: My luck will not be so bad, the probability of one in ten thousand! That's $1 million!
I can't help but think of a quote by Marx: "With 100% profit, it dares to trample on all human laws; With a 300% profit, it dares to commit any crime, even risking hanging. ”
Similarly, for gamblers, gambling in their minds is 100%, even 300% profit.
They only need to take a small risk in their hearts to stage a drama of life reversal, how can they bear to miss it?
Super raise, of course.
I believe that many people have heard such a saying, small gambling is pleasant, big gambling hurts the body.
But no one is born a gambler, and once you harbor the idea of "small gambling", the result is only to fall step by step.
There is an episode of "The Legend of Martial Arts" that Bai Zhantang is addicted to gambling, and at first his bet is still small, just a sugar man, a few dried sweet potatoes and figs.
But as his luck got better and better, he gradually became addicted, although under the guise of "small gambling and pleasant love", he blocked his salary for five years, and finally he was super raised, directly taking his life, just in exchange for gambling.
In the end, he still lost, and the loss was fierce, at the cost of leaving his right hand on the gambling table.
Between the rise and fall of the knife, he finally realized.
Fortunately, Li Mu did not cut off Bai Zhantang's hand that day, and everything was just a false alarm.
But in real life, how can there be so much luck?
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