Many live with that illusion in their heads and they think they will ultimately start to live their real life once they manage to score big on lotteries or on slots machines. When in reality it is true what you say, it is pretty much next to impossible to win the major prize of a lottery.
Also, I believe it is very stupid from anyone who won to lottery to try to get more from their luck by buying numbers with their prize. It is a very good example on how greed can destroy what could have been a story of success.
There are many stories of success which got ruined by greed and make people go penniless.
This illusion finally makes many people who enter gambling assume that they can get a jackpot with minimal capital, but it continues to be done.
Buy more lotteries, make a deposit to play more slots, so that a lot of capital will be spent just to get 1 jackpot which is almost impossible to get.
Usually the first win is a marker that you have to stop playing, especially if you win big most people will not stop and are not satisfied, so the winnings are taken again by the casino.
It's not just about capital and luck, but it's about psychology because casinos are playing with a person's psychology and whether they are able to stop at the right time and conditions or ignore everything until there is nothing left to play.
A success story that was initially a matter of pride ends up being a sad story and losing everything.
It is not the casino platforms that are wrong, but themselves, who do not regulate how they play and do capital and emotional management.