Currently, there had been several airdrops projects ongoing which participants are earning crypto coins without investing of money but executing some tasks.
So some of my friends says such funds are free money so they are delighted dedicating it to be spent on gambling and when they lost it all, it would be easier to let go because they did not stress to get the money.
Meanwhile... This usually comes a huge amount of money beyond their normal gambling budgets.
To me, they can utilize these so called free money by adding it up to their Bitcoin portfolio or even used it to spend on necessary things instead of dedicating to lavish it on gambling.
Gone are the days where you just need to advertise them in order for you to get some free tokens. Nowadays, if you really want to get some airdrops on these new projects, you need to invest at least a small amount of money on it (joining in a liquidity pool to earn points that are convertible to tokens). I'm not saying that these types of airdrops where they are giving free tokens to users are completely gone, but they are very rare already, and for me, it's not worth it to try it. Anyway, if they got it for free then they can use it on whatever they wanted to. Is there any problem with that?
I agree with what you said that they can just add it to their total portfolio but at the end of the day, it's their decision and they can do whatever they want to that "Free money" that they got.