Temple run is a free-to-play video game. But to play as a female character, you had to pay for it. Tim hartford has a theory about why this was the case. He calls up one of the creators who made temple run and explains what happened.
When Maddie Messer was 12 years old, she noticed an unfair dynamic in the video games she loved: playing as a man was often free, but she had to pay to play as a woman. So ... she decided to take on the video game industry. | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter
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