This sounds like people only ever went to casinos with the expectation of winning. You should not ever do this, even before the digital era. Casinos are places

This sounds like people only ever went to casinos with the expectation of winning. You should not ever do this, even before the digital era. Casinos are places where you can trade money for the hope of maybe winning a larger prize. For a lot of people, that is fun, and worth the expense. Seen from that perspective, there is still a "point".