This is the simple truth, if you think about your financial status, you can hardly go wrong because at that point you will be gambling with what you can afford to lose. But if your mind is fixed on the potential win, you will not think straight because you will have the justification to do anything to achieve it. Most addicted gamblers started by looking at what they can achieve through gambling, forgetting that gambling is supposed to be mainly for passive income and not a source of income.
This is why gambling is more dangerous to people that are poor and that reason for that is because they can go to any length to make sure that they achieve financial stability through gambling. People in this category don't gamble for fun they only gamble to make money desperately. Gambling doesnt really work that way. If you focus on making it a source of income it's only going to make you lose the little you have