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Gambling shouldn't be privatised. Idk why we allow people to profit from addiction. Their incentive is just to make it worse.
If it were just public then it'd be the government exploiting people's addiction. Honestly I see no way out of this besides regulating it out of profitability.
Maybe casinos have to have a net odds at like 50:50.1 and then charge for entry. Big wins would probably not happen so it might not work. But I've never met anyone who gambled regularly and it wasn't a problem.
The idea is that if the government gets all the profit from gambling then that money can go into social services to support the people who bankrupt themselves from gambling.