Gambling seems like a rational choice, when all the ”traditional” rational choices just lead into a mountain of student debt, not being able to afford a home, and general failure to launch
Summed up very nicely in https://oldcoinbad.com/p/long-degeneracy
Seeing gambling as rational choice is spectacular fail of logic. It is an emptional choice of action.
How could it possibly be the rational choice if the ev doing so is so ridiculously negative?
Having student debt doesn't justify throwing away the rest of your residual income