We already know that less privileged people are more prone to getting addicted to gambling with the involvement of financial reward. They are the ones chasing more wins because they actually need the money. The more money they get, the deeper they get into the addiction.
The gambling addiction of the Les privileged people is very alarming as anyone involved in it will see it as a gateway out of poverty which in reality it’s not. The mental stress and strain accompanied with not being able to satisfy your needs, hardships of life can make you want to consider gambling as an alternative way to get out of the vulnerable lifestyle, but it pose a big risk to the less privileged and vulnerable ones only if they know.
Another demographic that is more likely to get addicted to gambling are adolescents. Adolescents are aged 12-18. The rise of online casinos made way to more kids getting access into gambling. It is said that male adolescents are the ones most recorded to have ended up addicted in gambling. Their addiction is usually associated with sports and mobile games betting.
Adolescents that are getting into gambling are being pushed by the peer groups they find themselves. Another thing that could push them to join gambling as an adolescent is social media. When an adolescents with little or no knowledge about the outside lifestyle, the legal and the illegal ways of making money, the rich based on luck and those base on hardwork, and can’t differentiate them, he’ll easily fall into the quickest way to make money which one of them is gambling without proper risk management on them, it becomes hard for him and will lose more in the end.