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I don't think they claim there's causation, but instead just correlation. Correlation between ideas about finances and monetary outcomes.

• Klinky 6y ago
  ...and that is pretty worthless in the grand scheme of things, especially when it's trotted out as "poor people make dumb choices, glad I am not a dumb poor person making dumb choices". Some of the worst gambling offenders are rich people, who have gambled away multiple lifetimes worth of money, they just happened to have the net worth to take the hit.