In my view OP has cosmetic way of looking at things. The shot cut to poverty is loafing and inactive life rather than gambling. Stirring imposed by gambling on people who have active live and have skills to make money in all possible ways may result in enhancing the entrepreneur's streaks relevant to given characters. Thus, all depends on the given character. If the person is lazy per se then the poverty at the end no matter whether he is gambler or not .
If someone wanders around like a vagabond without working, then at the end of the day, there will definitely be pressure on them because who will pay for the expenses of running a family if they wander around without working.
Gambling plays a significant role in creating poverty in people, but if you live a more lazy life, it will not take long for you to become poor. There are many people around us who support their families with loans but live a lazy life without working, and they end up living in extreme misery at the end of their lives.
Money has to be earned by hard work and here lies everyone's problem. No one wants to earn money by working and also they want to earn more money without working. Most of the new gamblers come into gambling with the misconception that once they start gambling, they will be able to earn huge amounts of money from the gambling platform overnight, thereby making them own huge amounts of money without working hard. However, there is no similarity between fantasy and reality. When they get involved in gambling, far from making money by gambling, they regularly lose money. There are some stupid gamblers who get addicted to this gambling and borrow money from others and gamble with that money and it is really terrible for stupid gamblers. The gambler realizes that he has made a mistake, but by the time he realizes it, there is no time to correct the mistake. So we have to be careful in advance.
I mean... crypto is the antithesis of hard work, we are in front of the computer clicking buttons after all and then money flows
I always find it crazy when I compare to normal jobs, but it's crazy when you compare doing something physical with being a talented gambler.