21: The bandit that gives back
Lateral with Tom Scott
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What Is a One Armed Bandit?
Children can play slot machines in the UK. There's no age restriction on those machines. What is a one armed bandit? It's a thing with one arm that steals your money. Why do they have a bar symbol on those old fashioned slot machines? I would have liquidated my assets and put it all into slots as a four-year-old. You can bet you can eat it. And the jackpots are limited to like two or three pounds. But yeah, there's no age restrictions on those Machines. Now I say that out loud. That's bizarre. The entire thing is so weird. Never imagine if you made that connection in my head. We don't mean
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