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So my question is, is the percentage of the rich gambling lower than the middle and lower class?
I guess that in percentages it's the same... The number of rich people is lower than the number of poor people, my guess is that 20-30% of people from each class like to gamble. After checking it, my opinion is similar with the global average by some sites:
Worldwide Gambling Statistics Show that 26% of The Entire World Gambles. When you put that 26% into numbers, that's 2 billion and 80 million (2,080,000,000) people.
So by percentage, the numbers are probably pretty even. But if we take only 2.8 billion people into consideration I am sure we will have different numbers. In my opinion, the percentage of rich gamblers is probably the lowest (my wild guess would be around 10% maybe less), then middle-class gamblers, and in the end poor people with the highest percentage of active gamblers.
Do you gamble because you don't have sufficient money?
And what/where is enough? We all need a bit more, that's a fact. But gambling is not a shortcut to some quick profit... I mean it can be, but not every time. Sooner or later every gambler gets into some longer streak of losses, and if that wasn't the money you could afford to lose you are screwed... more or less, depending on how deep you went.