Dostoevsky described gamblers as the monks of greed. In Muggeridge's words. Singularly focused on getting money. Gambling as the "reductio ad absurdum" of money. Just to get it, and lose it on the next turn. To acquire riches by chance, and then lose them as suddenly and unaccountably.
I suspect that phenomenon has only increased to our present time and manifests itself in more ways now.
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