Many people mainly participate in gambling to eliminate loneliness, especially when people go to a stage of life and cannot take care of the elderly people in the family due to busy work. In this case, gambling can be an important way for those elderly people to spend time.
Moreover, if I sometimes feel mentally stressed, then I involve myself in gambling because in this case, gambling can give me temporary pleasure from mental stress.
Moreover, when tired of doing the same thing for a long time, people mainly choose gambling as a way to spend some time differently, and this is where gambling can be an important achievement and experience.
Gambling to spend free time or to relieve stress in the head due to boredom with work is something that is not wrong for some people to do. Although there is no guarantee of winning, at least people who feel like that are usually not so focused on a win because their goal is to be able to relieve stress in their own heads. In addition, there will be no excessive gambling addiction in such people because they only do it for a certain purpose even though they can also be happy when they win in gambling.
You are right bud, and to be certain actually, this which you have said is exactly why gambling was invented in the first place, it is actually men's greed and quest, hunger for free and easy money that turned gambling into what it is today, which is money making venture.
I would say that those who are sensible enough and understand gambling well enough know well to treat it for what it is and was meant for, which is just a means of having fun and passing time, relaxing after a hectic day at work or business place perhaps, for people like this, winning is not a priority, or even important, but still, it still appreciated when it comes(winning).