Philippine President Duterte suspended the operation of the government-run lottery because it is spam infested and many governments appointed officials are pocketing money coming from the sales, do you think it is much better to let a private company run the Lottery or they set up a monitoring board to check if all funds are all remitted..
Source :
https://www.rappler.com/nation/236406-duterte-suspends-pcso-gaming-operations-july-26-2019Your thoughts
Lottery is a gamble. There should be regulations from government in every gambling business but the government itself should not be involved in selling tickets to it's own citizens. When the government distributes lottery, people would get the message that this is the thing to do.
They would eventually believe more in luck than work.