On before now gambling was seen as a dirty habit and was painted black in the society because way back the society believes any gambler have so many bad habits too like doing drugs which most gamblers was mafias not just mafias but rich people .
Am not sure where did you get those points that i believe depending in which person you are talking because those people that has open mind will never have this kind of looks towards gambling.
this is a business and people here are dealing with their own funds.
But in this present world now gambling is seen as a business which both young (+18) and old part in which in the old times gambling was base most times about money wasnt base on sport but now is modernize into different kind of sport that why in west Africa there are so many gambling and betting companies because is been accepted by the public now as a medium of making extra cash basically gambling to me was for men but now you can see woman parting in gambling games which everyone in that habit believes each day he/she must make more returns than he/she has spent to stake just as an entrepreneur knows that risk management of any business he/she is operating,a gambler knows that their is high risk in every stake but their believes so much in good future that good must always come by that no matter the amount a gambler loses believes his coming will earn that triple times .So my question now is that can someone use gambling as a means of earning living?
even in the past? gambling is money making place either for the Owner or for the gambler but of course it is always the owner who win against players.