I agree completely with you that gamble is truly a good short cut to the part that lead to poverty because if you check the rate of wining in Gambling related activities the winning margin is nothing to compare with the losing percentage because with the rate people has been Gambling if everyone has been wining like that the rate of poverty must have been reduced to an extent in the society, morally speaking if you win big on Gambling you can't comfortable advise your younger generation to go into gambling when you're been asked of advise as an elderly person so Gambling is something that people should not put all their hopes on
If there is a short cut to poverty, there must be a short cut to wealth. One can not exist without other. Gambling can be one of a shorts cut to poverty, but not for everyone. There are million ways to lose money. If people have following logic: gambling means losing money or people lose often in gambling, then it is a short cut to poverty. Then cryptocurrencies are also short cut to poverty, as people lose on trades, get scammed or hacked.