Gambling is not short cut to solve poverty because they can lose and bankrupt anytime. They should think about how if they become addicted to gambling but they don't have money to fills their gambling habit. They will only get more and more problem if they still playing gambling and that will makes them depression.
Gambling can be indeed a short cut out of poverty but it is not guaranteed and the risks are way too high for anyone to actually consider gambling just to get out of poverty. Some people dream of winning the lottery and getting rich but the chances are too low and if you only depend on gambling to make money then that is where it can get problematic. But if you only gamble once in a while when you have extra money then you won’t end up with too much losses and frustration.