Gambling addiction is an addiction to losing.
Very few people have heard that truth and fewer still accept it. But it is obvious and provable. Psychologists know it. It is the same underlying psychological force that causes the seemingly inexplicable phenomenon that battered women repeatedly choose violent and sadistic men. Sadly, it is because it is what they want. They just don’t know it consciously.
And, almost all gamblers lose. Some more, some less, But odds are odds. Of course, there are a few lucky winners who are also compulsives, but they are really few and far between.
It’s a form of masochism.
Good post