the story is not adding up to a very large extent and is even misleading if what he narrates here is true although I have had a first hand experience of going into a gambling short to place a bet at the time I needed extra money to top up the one I already had for the my feeding and lost the money and had to go back home empty handed.

The issue o find in his story is that;
1. It's totally wrong to see a man that lost his last money through gambling and you're helping him out at the spot and your advice is to use what you've given him to gamble at that same spot? What happens when he looses it? And I guess that's possibly where he coined his title from that gambling can save life. Plus I'm even trying to look for the relationship between losing a gamble and inflation and can't seem to find an easy one.
2. I'm not conversant with how casino shops works since it's not popular in my region but if it's same setting with sports betting shops, most sports better would even laugh you to scorn if you're crying because you've lost. No one gives a thing about your loss since most of them have lost at one point in time and still had to pull themselves together by themselves.