With the recent rise in gambling activities especially even among the elderly those seen as elders who supposed to be advising the younger generations about the genders of gambling getting involved in related activities, infact if you enters a local gambling shop in my country you will not no an elder from a youth because you see elders also engaging in gambling especially virtually sport betting.
So am asking the forum what do you think is the cause of the rise in gambling related activities in our society is it due to bad economic situation or simply addiction?
Let have your view please
Whether bad economy or no bad economy, gambling is a personal choice and one every one get to decide for themselves. So, I wouldn't say that bad economy has lead people to gambling, though it's very possible that when there are no jobs in the country, alot of people will turn to different things as a means of making money for their livelihood which gambling may happen to be one of those, but who ever is turning to gambling because of this type of situation should understand that gambling is not a reliable means of making money for livelihood.
So, let me say that even in a bad economy or in the lack of jobs, people still have the ability to choose not to participate in gambling if they don't want to, since it's not a reliable means of making money.
So, going by this, I will not say that more people including elders are gambling as a result of the economy, they simply choose to gamble and that's all.