When you take away any hope of financial freedom by devaluing their money, people have no choice but to resort to gambling. The self rationalization process tells them it's 'investment' but that is just a liwle they tell themselves everyday. Their lives are filled with trying to come up with a winning strategy in this make believe rat race.

To rub salt on the wounds, the market is often manipulated to cause maximum misery, like kicking a climbing rat down the ladder they came.

When their money is controlled, humans inadvertently turned into lab rats in a large scale social experiment, and the 'scientists' became like gods themselves.