Why don't the rich people get addicted easily?

[Mrbluntzy]

This is an open question, maybe I could be wrong in the eye of some of you but am asking this question because a  large number of addicted gamblers are not even up to a middle class standard but they are addicted. Can someone tell me why it's like that or is it totally a different case in your society, maybe an opposite of what I asking is happening in your own society. Poor people gets more addicted, following the middle class before it gets to the rich. Since it's like that, I think it's just the poor people that are gambling the most in the world, if am not correct, I stand to be corrected.

[Gozie51]

Most rich people don't believe in luck. They believe they have to take calculated risk and they don't see gambling as major area for taking that risk. They can invest in bitcoin but may not give in to gambling. At least in Nigeria, I don't see most rich people gambling as source of income. If you see gambling as source of income then you will become an addict.

Another observation is the rich gamble reasonably and with the money that they can afford to let go and not chase back what they have lost. If you chase for your loses then you are likely to be an addict.

[Odohu]

The rich get addicted to gambling just like the poor and middle class, the only difference is that the rich already have system in place that generate money for them such that even if they lose money in gambling, it will not show in their lifestyle. In other words, they are gambling with what they can afford to lose unlike the poor and middle class that gamble with their life savings. Gambling addiction is never dependent on income level but can happen to all.

[Agbamoni]

When you are rich things like gambling don't get you addicted unless it is a way for you to have fun.
The rich has all the money they want, if they want to get rich they can venture into another business, or go into an investment that is very profiting. They are also updated on latest opportunities that will yield huge return in the future.

Gambling cannot make them rich again or sustain the wealthy they have build, that way they cannot be addicted to gamble. If you notice most persons that are addicted to gamble are always gambling for profit not for fun.

[Z_MBFM]

This is an open question, maybe I could be wrong in the eye of some of you but am asking this question because a  large number of addicted gamblers are not even up to a middle class standard but they are addicted. Can someone tell me why it's like that or is it totally a different case in your society, maybe an opposite of what I asking is happening in your own society. Poor people gets more addicted, following the middle class before it gets to the rich. Since it's like that, I think it's just the poor people that are gambling the most in the world, if am not correct, I stand to be corrected.

The reason why middle class or poor people are more addicted to gambling than rich people is because when a middle class or poor person loses some money in gambling, they continue to gamble more to recover this money. Sometimes they are very excited about winning a good amount and continue to gamble and thus they become more addicted to gambling. But rich people gamble only for fun and they spend money there for fun. So when they lose money, their emotions do not work like a poor person and even if they win something good, they do not get very excited about it, so in general, poor people are more addicted to gambling than rich people.

[uneng]

And how can we infer rich people don't get addicted easily? Is there any surverys which say so? I know stories of wealthy people who went bankrupted and wasted the patrimony their families took generations to build due to addiction. We just don't see these people too often, because they are minority in society, but at same time, it doesn't mean they don't correspond to a considerable percentage inside the financial class they are inserted.

Moreover, I risk saying this situation is particularly frequent among heirs. That is, people who didn't have to build and grow their wealth by themselves, rather they just received it from their parents and relatives.

[Shadiq]

Rich people are not addicted, because unaddicted people are rich.

In the case of gambling addiction, a person is rich because he can control himself. He knows when to work hard and how to control himself. I am not talking about those who are born with the clothes of wealth. If you can control yourself and keep yourself away from any kind of addiction, then you can also become rich. You can become addicted to hard work and intelligent work that if you work, you will become rich. Because of such addiction, you will become rich one day or the other.

In the case of the poor, they are poor because they are addicted to things that are harmful to them and they are unable to control themselves. They believe in pleasure and are busy eating. They are even lazy to take risks which a rich person easily accepts.

[Crypto Library]

This is an open question, maybe I could be wrong in the eye of some of you but am asking this question because a ⁹large number of addicted gamblers are not even up to a middle class standard but they are addicted. Can someone tell me why it's like that or is it totally a different case in your society, maybe an opposite of what I asking is happening in your own society. Poor people gets more addicted, following the middle class before it gets to the rich. Since it's like that, I think it's just the poor people that are gambling the most in the world, if am not correct, I stand to be corrected.

I don't think so that rich people don't get addicted easily because there is lots of stories like that the rich people become poor due to doing the excessive gambling. But I don't want to say that the rich people have the most percentage of the gambling addicted people. And the reason is if we make a Survey then you won't gonna see that all the people in our are rich people percent chance of rich people in our society also quite low and that's why it is automatically can be say that there is more under the rich class people's .

And since their number is large, it is natural that there will be more addicted people than them, but this does not mean that rich people are not addicted to gambling.

[Kavelj22]

This is an open question, maybe I could be wrong in the eye of some of you but am asking this question because a  large number of addicted gamblers are not even up to a middle class standard but they are addicted. Can someone tell me why it's like that or is it totally a different case in your society, maybe an opposite of what I asking is happening in your own society. Poor people gets more addicted, following the middle class before it gets to the rich. Since it's like that, I think it's just the poor people that are gambling the most in the world, if am not correct, I stand to be corrected.

Your opinion is partly correct, as the majority of gambling addicts actually belong to the under middle class. This is somewhat understandable, as their economic status often motivates them to engage more intensively in gambling, hoping to make a profit that will lift them out of their current social class.

However, I disagree with your exclusion of the wealthy, as there are many wealthy gambling addicts. Visit physical casinos every day for a period of time, and you'll notice people there every day, spending fortunes gambling all night. Even online casinos have a significant percentage of users with very comfortable financial circumstances, as do crypto-based casinos, where you'll find so-called gambling whales willing to spend millions of dollars on slots.

[DaNNy001]

Well, it's not hard to crack, rich people don't get addicted easily because they are not desperate to make money... although there are some rich people that are addicted not on the basis of making money but they just derive pleasure in throwing their money away... people who are poor are more likely to be gambling addicts because they unrealistic expectations of making money and becoming financially stable through gambling

[Ojima-ojo]

This is an open question, maybe I could be wrong in the eye of some of you but am asking this question because a  large number of addicted gamblers are not even up to a middle class standard but they are addicted. Can someone tell me why it's like that or is it totally a different case in your society, maybe an opposite of what I asking is happening in your own society. Poor people gets more addicted, following the middle class before it gets to the rich. Since it's like that, I think it's just the poor people that are gambling the most in the world, if am not correct, I stand to be corrected.

Let us also ask ourselves why there are more banks and other financial institutions in rich people environment, and there are more clubs, casinos and betting shops in poor people environment.


The mindset of the rich is not the same with that of an average individuals, and how a rich man sees risk is far different from how an average person sees it.

[memehunter]

As a rich person, you have access to more means of entertainment and you are way more social and therefore busy. Generally, addicted person lacks all of these. Rich person also has access to better company (friends circle), chances are they are highly educated so a rich person gets back on track easily compared to a poor person.
All of the above is especially true if that person has acquired the wealth himself. During that process, he has understood that there are more ways to make way more money with significantly less risk than gambling .
Even if a person has acquired wealth through inheritance, he still has better chances to understand the impact of addiction and get back on track because of his prosperous family than a poor person who just won lottery.
 

[SOKO-DEKE]

This is an open question, maybe I could be wrong in the eye of some of you but am asking this question because a  large number of addicted gamblers are not even up to a middle class standard but they are addicted. Can someone tell me why it's like that or is it totally a different case in your society, maybe an opposite of what I asking is happening in your own society. Poor people gets more addicted, following the middle class before it gets to the rich. Since it's like that, I think it's just the poor people that are gambling the most in the world, if am not correct, I stand to be corrected.

Rich people don't easily get addicted to gambling because they don't chase money blindly like the poor and middle class often do. Rich people are usually involved in things they know carry less risk, which is why they focus on business and investments rather than high risk activities like gambling.Most poor and middle class individuals get addicted to gambling because they believe it's the only way to quickly make the kind of money they dream of. This belief may be the reason they don't give up on gambling easily.

Another reason that draws many poor and middle class people into gambling is a lack of work. Some of these individuals have little to occupy their time. For someone who is constantly busy doing something that generates income, it's unlikely they would have the time or even the interest to get involved in gambling or develop a gambling addiction.

[Slow death]

This is an open question, maybe I could be wrong in the eye of some of you but am asking this question because a  large number of addicted gamblers are not even up to a middle class standard but they are addicted. Can someone tell me why it's like that or is it totally a different case in your society, maybe an opposite of what I asking is happening in your own society. Poor people gets more addicted, following the middle class before it gets to the rich. Since it's like that, I think it's just the poor people that are gambling the most in the world, if am not correct, I stand to be corrected.

When a rich person gambles, he is not looking for profit. He already has enough money to live well, so he gambles just to have fun. The rich also have many occupations, he has many places to have fun and many other things to do, so he will not spend much time gambling. But when a poor person gambles, he is looking to make a lot of money and become a rich man.

Since he does not have many sources of entertainment and things to do, he turns gambling into his main source of occupation. He spends more time gambling and losing money, and as a result, he becomes addicted.

Finally, in rare cases when a rich person becomes addicted, he quickly receives psychological treatment and locks himself in a private hospital. While when a poor person becomes addicted to gambling, it takes a long time to start treatment and, if he does, he ends up in a hospital with terrible conditions.

[Jaycoinz]

This is an open question, maybe I could be wrong in the eye of some of you but am asking this question because a  large number of addicted gamblers are not even up to a middle class standard but they are addicted. Can someone tell me why it's like that or is it totally a different case in your society, maybe an opposite of what I asking is happening in your own society. Poor people gets more addicted, following the middle class before it gets to the rich. Since it's like that, I think it's just the poor people that are gambling the most in the world, if am not correct, I stand to be corrected.

No way man, even the rich gets addicted bro, I mean there are many gambling stories out there about rich dude that their habits ran them into bankruptcy but their is a difference between the thin line of a rich gambler and that of a poor gambling because the effects of someone who is poor when he is addicted is more visible but for rich guys since they have more source of funds it takes more to show and the after effects comes slow other than someone who gambles and have nothing to cover it when he loses.

[Rruchi man]

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There are many rich individuals who are still addicted to gambling but you will never know because they are in a financial position where they are able to cover their losses. Losses on a poor person will reflect more because you would often find them complaining and nagging more about their losses or even getting depressed from them more easily, but with rich people, they easily bounce back and keep gambling unless they lose a very substantial amount of money that gets them into a difficult position.

There are many rich addicts; you probably just don't know.

[Charles-Tim]

I have seen exactly this somewhere before that the rich people are less addicted to gambling. I think this is because they are gambling not to make money, unlike someone that is not rich. I have seen people that are not rich going to a betting shop before betting on parley with little amount of money like $1 for odds of over 10 to 1000x. They will keep doing this and they will keep losing. Rich men will not think like this because they will likely not expect luck like people that are not rich. Also rich people have sources of income that is right for them which will let them not think of gambling as one.

[swogerino]

This is an open question, maybe I could be wrong in the eye of some of you but am asking this question because a  large number of addicted gamblers are not even up to a middle class standard but they are addicted. Can someone tell me why it's like that or is it totally a different case in your society, maybe an opposite of what I asking is happening in your own society. Poor people gets more addicted, following the middle class before it gets to the rich. Since it's like that, I think it's just the poor people that are gambling the most in the world, if am not correct, I stand to be corrected.

It is easy to get that, especially for people who have worked in a big company and had the chance of staying with the boss family, like driving them or making some work for them. In my case many years ago I worked at such family and had the chance to know these persons, they had everything, a big company, money flowing to them from people working for them and I would find it extremely stupid for such people to get addicted in gambling. One day I had to move out of the country and we were in some casino in a place in Europe where it is famous for casinos, not naming it here, and the guy spent a lot of money trying every game there, in a physical casino. Next day when we woke up I told him let's go and play again, he said to me no, I got bored there, so normally for such people it is much more difficult to get addicted compare to us, working class.

[len01]

I have an assessment of some of the neighborhoods I observed :

Rich people rarely get addicted because they sometimes only come some of the time and don't even have much time to gamble. They have busy schedules in several companies. And when he comes to gambling, he comes for fun not to make money. But that doesn't mean rich people can't get addicted. Because there are some company owners bankrupt too much debt because the money is used for gambling.

A poor person must have less work and more free time. When someone doesn't have a lot of free time, usually his mind is always thinking about things how to make money without having to work hard. And when he knows gambling, he thinks gambling can be used as a place to make money. That way poor people who have thoughts like this will be more easily addicted.

[death69]

Why it seems like rich folks are immune to addiction. It’s because their addictions wear better disguises. Casino? Yacht club. Lottery tickets? Angel investing. You see what I mean? You can be addicted to risk, status, dopamine, but wealth lets you change the packaging. Poor people gamble to escape. Rich people speculate for fun, for sport, for power.

When you don’t have much, you gamble because the upside actually changes your life. High risk, high hope. For the rich? They’ve already won the basic game. So their compulsions play out differently, often invisibly, sometimes even getting called “entrepreneurship". (Look at Silicon Valley’s burn rate.)

When society shames addiction in the poor and calls it “vision” in the rich, you get these weird double standards. “Addiction” is poverty’s label, “adventure” is the luxury version. Same brain chemistry. Different suit. If you’re middle or lower class and gambling is your one shot, the things get brutal, relentless. For the wealthy? They can lose and shrug, so the spiral doesn’t grip as tightly.

So no, it’s not that the rich are made of different stuff. It’s that the game gives them free lives.