It's the mindset that many people have that gambling can change their lives and so they think it as a solution to poverty.
Many people "want to win a lottery" that will change their life and keep betting on different things for the same.
But not everyone is lucky enough to win a huge lottery and most of those people just lose their money instead.
You are right, there are so many gamblers who have the perception that gambling is the answer to economic problems and also changes life for the better, but in reality they do not have better life and can have sufficient economy but they enter into poverty to increasingly complicated financial economic problems, even many are entangled in debt that continues to grow.
Well, the lottery is one of the most popular bets for people who are chasing the jackpot because of the large amount that is very tempting and can even make someone rich when winning the lottery jackpot and there are some people in this world who succeed but they always end up in trouble again because of their own mistakes, winning the lottery jackpot only has 1% success rate which means 99% percent is failure.