Nowadays, government even the one that urges it considering the return of revenue they get from it. There are two types of people in gambling, those who want to win and fill that ego within and those who want to profit because of the latter type of people (these are the casinos or similar entities).
These days gambling is done to get money out of it and very few people think of the entertainment factor associated with gambling.
Gambling casino are built (both physical and online) for the purpose of generating money as houses earn more money than the gamblers. However, playing gambling is no longer considered entertainment and for those rich people who still think that gambling is entertainment for them, it is an expensive source of entertainment.
People becomes greedier than ever because casino level there games jackpot and attracted players to play more to win more. This is the main cause why many people are getting rekt big time due to greediness on winning the jackpot that is too good to be true to win without burning huge amount of money.
Gambling is already so expensive unlike before that people only use min amount to bet because there’s no huge jackpot prize which casino being offered. But now the multiplier of wins in all types of game gets real big.