The difference is rational, informed thinking.

I can sort of understand poor people playing lottery, if for a relatively small cost they buy a thrill of checking the results every day even if they net loose the money because they buy less than equal part of large prize.

It is entirely another thing to do the same for living and offer products to those people knowing full well they are unlikely to satisfy their need.

These people may "know" they run risk of loosing their money but do not "comprehend" this is not a productive way to get rich.

And I suspect in part it may be kind of "cargo cult" in that they observe rich people gambling on exchanges but they do not understanding that this is effect rather than cause of their wealth.

Somebody should tell people that, rather than wasting time and money gambling on forex they would be better off taking a book and learning something useful.

Lots of people feel like they're stuck at a dead end, and winning the lottery is the only reasonable way out.

Seriously, if you don't have some kind of exquisite knowledge playing on Forex is basically the same as gambling.

If you read any stories about people who got wealthy, making good use of your money, time and focus is a constant theme.

If you read any stories about people who got wealthy, being born into wealth is a constant theme. The question is how do you get there without winning the rich parents lottery?

> if you don't have some kind of exquisite knowledge playing on Forex

And how do you get knowledge about forex? Maybe by trading small amounts of forex?