Well I can't help but say something that many have gone through (including me) I live in a country that spent almost 20 years without physical casinos by order of a government that what it did was devastate the country, after that time the same government under the same political or ideological current decided to let them work and function again (Under their rules) however during all that time many players entered the online casino platforms, they have been entering a lot in stake.com, bitcasino.io, SB , because they are platforms that they could easily interact with and only with crypto, so all these people who have large amounts of money have been well served, and now they are entering much more, in this case it was not out of laziness but because they were looking for fun.
What a touchy story, sometimes we need to pass through hard times in order to reshape us to withstand any challenges in life, we've got alot of countries who don't admit the full operation for gambling all because of the consideration of it side effects but actually this era of crypto supported casinos have make it more easy on gamblers to have enough satisfaction through the online or virtual ones and those gamblers that have been into it for so long have magnanimous experience with staking huge amount in gambling with and yet they make their cool money out of it not minding the risk, but the fun in staking gamble is enough for what they'd expected.
Yes, honestly I don't know why things are usually like this, first of all there has to be a business model that makes things flow and obtain the required permits, in the case of countries that already have a special treatment with their governments, They must wait to see if there is a possible change of government with very different political currents to see if they are released and work only for themselves as a normal company that does not have to be at the mercy of what a government imposes on them to be able to work. Things in this type of country at least have a solution, but there are countries that do not even accept a deal with the casinos, but instead the answer is a resounding no.
Ancient Indian texts shows that gambling was a part of people's life.
Type of gambling may vary from country to country/people to people.
Gambling habit had started one of the biggest wars of Indian History i.e. Mahaabhaarata.
Here is an article about it if you wants to know more:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2910357/It's about
compulsive gambling, but probably in older times almost all gamblers were gambling addicts. That's because people weren't cultured much in the past, and hence they were greedy and envious beyond measure. They could put at stake their children and wife , they could easily kill out of rage. Only a few people are like that these days. Because of the education today we have higher level of morale than people used to have in the past. And that's why we can be responsible gamblers.
Correct, back then there was not as much information available as we have now about the dangers of gambling addiction and why gambling is not really a source of income except for casinos, not only that back then also existed the concept of debt slavery in which if a person could not pay their debts they could be made slaves and even other members of their family could suffer the same fate, since then we have advanced a lot but unfortunately there are still people which end up addicted to gambling.
Besides, the law during those days are not as humane as today. Ancient law are somehow barbaric that fights often occurs in public anytime to faction or parties disagree. Though I do not think that compulsive gambling is way worst in ancient time than today. I believe people who fall to compulsive gambling is way more in the present time than the old time. Reason, communication is instant today while in ancient times, it is not. There are lots of platforms that hosts gambling activities and people today can enjoy gambling in the comfort of their home. So basically people engaged in gambling today is way more than people engaged in gambling in the ancient time.
Theres a point gambling with that previous times does not have any rules and law regarding in too much gambling as long as they can play as they want the casino is open to them also some of the entertainment to them by that they can just enoy playing without getting problem about the regulations, only few people know how to manage themselves and there's other always play gambling just to make them fun for the whole day and repeat again.
I think this is part of the freedom part, a person who is 18 years of age or older has the right to play as he pleases, as such he is a person who already has apparent responsibility and can do many things, in this case the freedoms in some casinos it is much larger than others, when in some casinos they determine that a person is losing control, they put a spending limit on him, if he goes over there they block him and he cannot continue playing anymore, this is like a measure of projection to the player, of course this is in online casinos, I don't know if physical casinos have that option (most likely not).