it is generally wrong to spiritualize everything. you have to know that there are levels to things and the way you look at each of those things differs. when one starts gambling, there is nothing spiritual you usually do about it. right from the first stage of gambling with that little amount to the next stage increasing the amount and gambling almost every now and then, it is all your decision to go about it whichever way you want to go about the act. when you are winning, the usual thing is that no one complains about it and then when you starts losing we change the narrative to an external influence being responsible for it. if gambling was all that spiritual, it would have been possible to get outcomes of it through spiritual means.
addiction as a whole comes through series of processes starting gradually and then growing from that point into something that becomes uncontrollable. if you deal with it while it is just starting, it wont worsen to the point where it becomes an issue that should be dealt with spiritually. the fact still remains that gambling is not for everyone and so, rather than getting yourself all hooked in and regretting later, it is better to never do it at all if you can not deal with it.
excuse me, why should spiritualizing things be bad?
I would like to ask you a question, does doing it create problems for you or does it create conditions in which you feel bad or you are not comfortable? i don't think so.
so in my opinion it's the opposite, thinking that everyone is a machine, that makes the world a worse place