People say gambling is a waste of time and money. That's the reason why as much as possible people are not encourage to take gambling. However, my point is, it could be a waste if you are an irresponsible gambler. You are gambling on your funds that should be paid on bills, or you are using your emergency funds. Or worst, you are gambling when you don't have the knowledge even the basics in gambling. Now my question is, does it mean responsible gamblers never wasted their time and money when they are gambling? Then how about those losses that they have incurred, when they can use it to add to their emergency funds?
Gambling doesn't make any difference and can ruin it all, the reason though is that most knowledgeable people know where to play first and know what games have their chances to win for them and rarely you will see such persons making heavy lost amounts of money. The problem is with impulsive gamblers that just go and watch some sponsored streamer hitting a huge win and immediately they want to emulate the same success, it is here where the catch is, you simply can't achieve the same success because simply don't have the money compared to a streamer which many different casinos may favor with real money in order to promote them. So people who spend money they cannot afford to lose like those mentioned from you in this thread are gamblers with not much experience or they are believing in fishy dreams.