Isn’t this similar to all ads for useless stuff.

We’re being targeted to buy $100k cars we don’t need. Not much worse than being targeted to gamble an extra $10k.

At least with a car you know exactly what you're getting, you might not value it but many people out there are absolutely getting their money's worth back from a 100k car, be it ego or aesthetics or whatever, a gambling addict is just getting exploited and abused, there's no positive to it.