Gambling has been a widespread form of entertainment for centuries. I Googled how many people gamble and on the first site they write that about 1.6 billion people around the world gamble. And this is almost 20% of the world's population.
What do you think? Why is there such a different attitude to gambling products and will it ever change?
It feels like gambling has become much more normalized in recent years and accessibility has improved greatly as well. However the numbers quoted seem a bit high, it's possible that around 20% of the world's population might gamble each year if you include fairly benign activities like the lottery, but 4+ billion seems highly inaccurate. If you look at America, which often has the largest amount of money sloshing around in entertainment activities, they have been increasingly legalizing gambling state by state - as they see the money the Las Vegas and online gambling can bring in taxes.
Things have been like this with gambling for a long time, in fact when people talk about games of chance to think that a part of the population thinks that this is bad, and the truth is I don't know why, there are many who they like it and enjoy it, so it has become very popular, and I think that as time goes by that interest will continue to increase and the reason is simple, the people are looking to have fun and are looking to have more experiences that put their adrenaline to 1000, and I know many friends who have a lot of money and play and play, they will lose and it is like taking a fart from a cat, it does not affect them, and this is obviously feeding a casino, clients for a casino are everything, for this reason it is I think that when a person says that casinos are bad, they are thinking retrograde and obviously wrong about what gambling is.