It is particularly strong among the poor who have lost confidence in work as a means of getting ahead in life. Gambling may be for many people a fatalistic expression of the belief that most of life is luck. Life is to a significant extent a lottery won or lost at conception, so one might as well roll the dice as life rolls along. The pursuit of wealth without work is nothing new. But in the end it only leads to despair or depression.
Sensual pleasures hold out promises that lack staying power.
Sensual pleasures offer to open our eyes, but blind us. Sensual pleasures disillusion us. The ultimate frustrations - work and death. A. Wisdom is better than insanity, but both die in the end. No matter what we accomplish, we are forgotten.