When I read an article about a gambler with addiction, I noticed that he often mentioned that when he started to accumulate debts among friends, and loans from banks, he began to eat worse, stopped buying new clothes. He began to live in the Syndrome of Deferred Life. What kind of syndrome is this?
A believe that life gets better with time, even when nothing is legitimately done about it is the worst ways to spend the little time we have on this blue marble planet. I haven't read any article about this level of addiction in gamble, but I'm not surprised that someone might be thinking of this as the right way to prepare for the future that's as uncertain as life itself.
Do you think problem gamblers can save on themselves to start living in the "bright future" they hope for after a big win at the casino?
The same goes for problem bettors and sports betting.
So what if they never get to win at all? What if they won, only to realize they had an unmanageable cancer that'd take them in few weeks? The odds of something else happening at the long run is even higher than winning a jackpot.