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104. Addiction by Design by Natasha Dow Schüll

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Gambling Machines - It's Ergonomic

You can pay for roughly something like an hour of play just straight away it goes into credits. You feed in a few bank notes and then off you go they change the position of the bank note eat eater. They also added some bingo results and a TV because what they were thinking is okay maybe people are playing bingo and they have to go up and get their bingo results  then they don't have to leave and there's no reason to stop. The whole experience of gambling like this is actually quite ergonomic but also it's quite disembodied you forget about your body.

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