That's related to why so many US states have struck devil's bargains with lottery companies. The lottery companies promise to give a percentage of profits back

That's related to why so many US states have struck devil's bargains with lottery companies. The lottery companies promise to give a percentage of profits back to public funds (often state education funds) for the rights to operate in that state. On the one hand it is nice to imagine that money going to fund education programs. On the other is the realization that gambling addiction affects every class of people, not just the super-rich and that if those lottery funds are broken down in comparison to other taxes they are often egregiously regressive (the poor buy a lot more lottery tickets than the average rich person, and worse spend a much larger share of their disposable income). It's hard to imagine pay-2-win not having similar devil's bargain problems for "wealth redistribution" that some of the players most interested/encouraged to pursue it aren't always the players that can truly afford it.