Sorry that sucks. I'm intimately aware of addiction and how it can sadly smash families and people from all backgrounds and economic situations, so I'm empathetic to that problem.

And I'm for sure not disadvantaged myself.

I didn't know where to comment a reply this seemed most relevant.

I guess what I'm trying to get at is a lot of the threads here, to me, read as elitist & missing the full picture.

E.g. for instance missing the value of entertainment.

even on an unkind view of looking at players only as addicts, like lots of drugs (legal and not), that dopamine hit is fun...

to be clear I'm not trying to put that negative frame into all the people's intention here, just trying to explain how I read a chunk of the comments

It's not only some uneducated non-optimal financial ROI calculation made by disadvantaged people, or compulsive gamblers, who are being taken advantage of by state sponsored casinos imho