Professor Colin O'Gara

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Taking Stock · Gen X working blues, Prediction Markets and Burnham's economic headaches · 24 Jul 2026 podcast

And what that means is that they have different genetic predispositions in their neurocircuitry and dopamine rich areas of the brain

These dopamine-rich areas of the brain are associated with risk processing.

So when a kid says, I've bet here on my favorite team, I've now moved on to the online slots, I'm betting here, I'm losing quite a lot of money, 80% of kids would probably say, get out.

However, there will be about 20% of children who will not be able to do that.

Now, of course, it's illegal to be gambling under the age of 18, but we know that children

you know kids do gamble because our regulation protections aren't there but these children will not be able to stop gambling and they will develop compulsivity based on their genetic makeup so that's the second piece genetics and then the third is environmental if you live as a lot of our children do in a saturated gambling society like we have at the moment you're at high risk of developing gambling addiction so if you live somewhere else in the world

Billboards, high streets, radio, podcasts, television, sporting events and now with polymarkets, everyday current affairs, culture and the arts.

So pretty much all of life, everything's becoming monetised with the lure, particularly towards young men, of getting rich quickly.

I haven't heard specifically of that, but it would tally, certainly chimes with the idea of

what we have been told for many years in terms of, you know, it's much for the operator, it's much better that your money is in that you can continue to gamble.

Or in the case of Polymark is that you continue to bet on whatever it is rather than taking your money out.

So that would make sense.

Well, I think what you've just said is very sensible.

And I think that if we're to look at this in a pragmatic fashion, that gambling won't be going anywhere.

That's for sure.

And a lot of people enjoy gambling.

And I don't have any issue with that whatsoever.

I think what we've got to focus on is having adequate regulation for the individuals where there is a difficulty.

And most importantly, do we have a just and equitable provision of services for people who are harmed by this product?

And now the ESRI figures that you mentioned, we know for a fact.

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