Unfortunately, the most reckless thing in this case is not robbing but committing suicide. Addiction has led many people to their grave by committing suicide. Alcohol addict may end up drinking to stupor, lose his mind and do anything stupid like driving recklessly that might lead to their death. Although, in the case of gambling addict, stealing is the most thing associated with them. I have witnessed where someone attempt to steal a bike, he was caught and burnt alive. At the end of the investigation, we heard that the victim was a gamble addict and we all assume that is the reason he tried to steal just to continue with his gambling addiction. That was not a direct suicide but more or less of suicide. Addiction is very bad in every aspect because the consequences is mostly negative and harmful.
You are describing any addiction that takes lots of money, drug addicts are way more famous for stealing.
The future generations parents have a lot to do to control their children from becoming addict. The advancement of technology seem to make it difficult for them already. I watched one video yesterday where a child less than one year old is already addicted to phone and he starts crying when her mother refused to give him the phone. He operate the phone randomly, play a video and start watching with utmost concentration. I don't know if the video was scripted, edited or whatever but that's the reality coming ahead of us.
Those parents just have to do parenting. Not everyone wants to do that and blame tech or their childrens for addiction they are themselves creating by allowing too much unsupervised screen time. Some parents will allow their childrens to watch screens all the time because that keeps them quiet. And cutting that out for no apparent reason to child will be hard after they are addicted.
Addiction is never kids own fault as they are not responsible adults. And i don't need to mention gambling addiction isn't something that should affect to kids as they shouldn't be allowed to gamble in the first place.