Gambling is growing because of the demand, and nowadays it's easy to gamble due to the advent of Crypto.
Personally, I don't see anything bad about that, I call that development or progress, it could create jobs and give gamblers an entertain.
It must be a bad sign for a society without any arguments. It may create jobs for few but will make thousands jobless. Gambling will give negative development for a society as the consequence of gambling addictions will push people to forget their social and family responsibilities. Gambling is kind of business which should be a heavily regulated all the times by governments and it should not be promoted publicly.
As long as people will also become matured and responsible in gambling, gambling will be appreciated as it can also help the government through tax generation.
You are expecting so much from gamblers or you are just not aware of the dangers of gambling addictions. Governments are allowing gambling industry just for the reason of tax generation but they are not at considering the negative impacts of gambling . That is really a pathetic situation even in developed countries.
Now a days, all the governments are looking for revenue generations a rather than looking for having intelligent citizen. They just want a busy citizen so that he will not ask questions but will pay taxes.
That is right. This is the reason why they allow prostitution and not controlling trades of drugs. I guess at least 40% men in world population must be addicted to either of one of these three.