This is also connected with the moral qualities of those people who build their careers in politics. And now, in my opinion, nobility and the highest degree of dignity and honor are completely absent from modern politicians. They simply cannot be compared even remotely with the politicians who governed countries 100-150 years ago. Now, in the upper echelons of power, there are some completely random, worthless people. And unfortunately, they are the ones who decide issues that affect the lives of millions of people. And they decide them not at all based on the interests of these very people. And their moral ugliness allows them to do good for narrow groups of the population, to which they themselves belong, and they do not care at all about the rest of the population. And this morality of theirs is crossed out by some concept of "common sense". However, this sense is not common, it is simply filthy.
Those modern politicians is busy to make them rich by doing many illegal things and don't care with their responsibility when they are in the government position. They also not responsibilities with their citizens and only release laws without working and make sure everything runs as their plan. They made a law that gives them a way to make more and more money but public doesn't know for sure so can still operate their business without anyone knows. They don't have morality about their position in the government. If they care with their citizens, they will working for their citizens and always reminds their citizens not to playing slot game excessively or stop playing gambling forever. They will trying to build employment for its people so they will have a chance to earn money and slowly can leaves gambling.
It is no longer a secret that politicians enrich themselves, they look selfish in my opinion, not in accordance with their promises when they will serve as people's representatives, moreover, many politicians are currently addicted to slot gambling, where they openly play during state meetings, so how can they forbid people to stop gambling if they themselves set a bad example
Sorry but I might not completely agree with you unless you prove other wise., it is wrong to say that politicians can enrich themselves through gambling, if winning in gambling was that easy, I guess that several of us who are gamblers will be multi millionares by now.
And I can't even wrap my head around what you said that politicians openly play slot games during state meetings, I don't know which country you are posting from but on my own side, I never see such a thing with the government officials In my country.
And let me say that them banning something or an activity and them still getting involved in that activity that was banned is nothing new actually, I remember when X was banned by the president of my country, several governments officials were caught using VPN to access X, if this also happens in gambling, it's nothing to be surprised about.