Gambling industry has used psychological tools since time immemorial to take advantage of er the kind of psychological traits that they know we have. And a lot of this stuff is in built into the way gambling games might work, right? There was necessarily more on line gambling during lock down because there was no high street so a lot of that money shifted from going to the bookmakers to going on line. We haven't yet got figures to give us a comprehensive breakdown of the kind of final impact of coverd but i think what we've seen so far is that, overall, gambling hasn't necessarily gone up. But some of the people at the margins, the people who are perhaps most at
Rob Davies is an investigative journalist for The Guardian and his new book, Jackpot, tells the story of how Britain came to be one of the largest gambling markets in the world. The book describes how the mainstreaming of gambling advertising in the early 2000s combined with high-tech microtargeting of online gamblers has meant that the industry today is profiting from preying on the most vulnerable in society. Joining Rob to discuss the book is Joey D'Urso, investigations writer at The Athletic UK.
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