Should've Stayed in Vegas — with Natasha Dow Schüll
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Is There a Way to Regulate the Slot Machine?
"I call it homo economicus homunculus. Right. And then there's a little part of you that's in trouble here," he says. "And the reptile brain's evil or wrong or something like that." In gambling, we try to regulate machines by adding screens and modules on them - but they don't go far enough, Nadeau argues. The only way for this to be modeled isn't just to limit the power around how people have to say 'no' instead of 'yes,' he adds.
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