I can tell you now that some people spend all day at home doing nothing but gambling,making predictions,doing research about teams,looking for game they will play without it cutting.They rest on only making predictions or trying to make odds that won't cut.This is to tell you that most people use gambling as their source of income,and it is producing great result for them.If you haven't seen,I have seen people who dont do any other job,than to sit at home and gamble,and the gamble is paying them.They are satisfied with the money it's giving them,so they dont plan on quiting anytime soon.
We only say people don't depend on it for survival because we've not seen,but I can say it is a means of survival because I have seen people surviving through it.
Yes, I don't have doubts about what you said. There are people who are not doing anything reasonable every day; all they are doing is gambling and spending time with friends chitchating. Some of them with such behavior still make a profit and look responsible, but some of them don't. I have said something before about one man who gambles all the time but still takes very good care of his family and provides for the needs of his wife and children. Despite seeing such, I would not still advise anybody to take gambling as a career because it is not worth it, bro. It's not everyone that can do well in gambling. Some people can even get addicted to the process.
Well spoken mate, I agree that someone can be addicted without even gambling irresponsibly. Through out my experience with gambling I've observe that there are some person who gamble to survive, and yet they aren't gambling irresponsibly, they might not be lucky all the time but they sure do well with the little profit they get. Though it's not advisable but some of these persons have no other choice, than to stick to gambling, and one fact about such person is their background they are usually from poor homes. Gambling is risky and taking it as your source of income would only help destroy your mental health for free.