Recent research has indicated the economic magazine Lavoce.info who spends most of the game in our country: pensioners, households headed by uneducated, housewives, lonely and adolescents.
They are in fact, the major players in the achievement of dizzying numbers of this business in Italy (first gaming market in Europe and third in the World).
So then the Italian boot is flooded Slots, various lottery tickets, betting, advertising resounding in all corners of the City (for example 400 thousand slot, half of all those present in the US, cutting a scratch-and-win on 5 sold on the planet is Italian).
The sales office is equal to 88 billion euro to which is added an illegal, estimated 15 billion. An audience of 800 thousand players with addiction and 2 millions at risk ludopatie (phenomenon until a few years ago unknown, while today psychologists, psychotherapists and psychiatrists perform specific training courses to help their clients).
Paradoxical as in crisis are just the poorer sections of the population to increase the share of expenditure going to the game: 3% income against 1% wealthy households.
Here we enter the logic for which we dream of the big win that takes you out of your impoverishment.
If you look at the geographical distribution of the phenomenon, stands the center south where it happens, there are regions with the highest rate of wear (Report CGIA 2013). Searches ISTAT report the growth of 15% complaints to wear in our country. And 'likely that addiction brings you to play more and more and when you finish your money you need to have them pay.
Alex Gaetani