Quote from: johhnyUA on Today at 03:24:54 PM

Quote from: Smartprofit on June 12, 2021, 12:58:48 PM

Gambling is becoming popular because people have no global purpose in life.

In the 19th century, people believed in endless scientific and technological progress. However, the First World War showed that technological progress can serve not only the cause of good, but also of evil.

In the 20th century, people have a new global goal - space exploration. However, by the beginning of the 20th century, space exploration projects were curtailed.

Instead, the Internet and the virtual space began to develop. However, the internet is just chatter. People are disappointed.

Therefore, they began to actively seek excitement and drive in gambling.

This is totally wrong. Gambling was popular since pre historic times. When people started to engrave symbols on bones and start to throw it - gambling become popular ))

So your conclusions not correct at all.

Right. Gambling was very popular in ancient Rome (it is even mentioned in the Bible several times) and even among the ancient Greeks, and it was most likely known well before that. Some would go as far as to say that gambling was an integral part of how society was organized and governed. However, gambling was also viewed as a sinful vice by Christians and the Church (and this feeling didn't diminish much to this day), and therefore forbidden by law. They thought this should have put an end to the games. But it didn't. Gambling games continued to be played throughout the Middle Ages, and into the modern period.
Hence, to say that gambling is more popular in our time than it has been in the past is wrong since there is no standardized method of comparison as far as I know. Of course, with the prevalence of the Internet, gambling has become much more accessible to the general public.