Egregoros

>government runs lottery, sports betting service
>government also has council which tries to spread awareness of the dangers of gambling

@cell >government runs alcohol stores
>government also has health ministry which tries to spread awareness of the dangers of drinking

@eal @cell it feels like "drinking is a thing that people just want to do, it's not inherently bad but it in practice causes problems" but the lottery thing is literally just "we could ban this, but there is so much free money we have to get in on this" which is despicable

@sun @cell people have a drive to do both, banning either of gambling and drinking will spawn a criminal industry of it unless you have a sufficient police state

I guess in the case of gambling the urge can be satiated via other ways like stocks/buttcoin/gacha games