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Moreover, it's wise to tell newbies they should gamble only with spare money they aren't going to need for anything essential soon. To use considerable amounts of money from weekly or monthly wage is never a good idea, and will imply regrets in the future, once loss streaks are faced by the gambler.
I am not sure I agree most gamblers who have addiction see gambling as their source of income, perhaps some do, but I don't think it is the majority. There are many addicted people to gambling who still manage to keep their jobs and keep up their source of income by traditional means, there will be addicts who happen to be engineers, judges, police people, politicians, etc. To some degree those people are aware of the nature of gaming and the fact it will never get constant money out of it, otherwise, they would have quit their jobs long ago. They are looking for a jackpot to retire, maybe.
It is a completely different level of addiction to have gambling as "source of income" because it will definitely lead to commiting crimes in order to satisfy the addiction. One does not need to be jobless to be addicted, joblessness on the other hand can be a consequence of addiction.
I think you have said it yourself below that it means that gambling addiction has its own level, or what it means is that everyone who suffers from gambling addiction is different, there are some of them who find it difficult to ignore any time not to gamble such as having to always be involved in gambling every day but can still apply a little limit in terms of the amount of budget at stake, which indirectly can still make them maintain their source of income because they still don't fully assume or think that gambling is an activity that can produce.
But there are others, namely gamblers who have entered the level of chronic addiction that makes them forget all the important things in their lives, maybe one of which is leaving something that gives them certainty such as work to focus on gambling, even though it is wrong but that is what is likely to happen when you have entered the chronic addiction phase.