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104. Addiction by Design by Natasha Dow Schüll

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Book Review - Gambling Machines

Gambling is a form of self-destruction they're trying to destroy themselves and it's something they willingly enter but they only willingly enter it once they've been caught in the mouse trap of the machine. Extended intensive and repeated encounters with the same machine interface seemed to bring gamblers from diverse walks of life into a shared zone of experience cutting through and across the differences between them. In almost every location there is a gambling machine in Las Vegas and they appear in 7-elevens, grocery stores and other places can simply have gambling machines inside them. Almost everywhere she goes she encounters them and gets sucked in once more. The book has four broad topics that are put into four parts

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