I don't even believe that unemployment could be the reason why people are gambling when gambling doesn't make any one rich overnight rather you will keep losing the one you have to gambling until when you get lucky to win something you may still lose to them. Gambling doesn't make anyone to be financially stable it takes more from people if the government decides to put a stop to gambling it will take them many years to achieve that result because there are so many ways to gamble be it online or offline and people have already secured different ways of gambling the government can not discover all the ways so they can't successfully put a stop to it.

Yes, agreed that there are some dissidents who may try assessing those prohibited gambling sites through the use of VPN but it won't be like when there's no restriction at all. There's reason why there's leadership in states and countries, and in everything we do. It's for the purpose of charting a way forward for others. If the leadership of a country feels gambling may derail its people and decides to ban it, it doesn't mean it's not aware that citizens will also feel impact of such restriction. It's just that it's looking at the large picture of what its action will result to.

Also, when gambling is banned in a country; it's obvious government of that country will equally lose revenue in form of taxes from that. Government knows all that.