Episode · No Stupid Questions · 2023-04-09
Books mentioned on 141. Is Greed Good?
Who’s greedier — gamblers or casinos? What’s the difference between betting on sports and entering a charity raffle?
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Addiction by Design
Addiction by Design by Natasha Dow Schüll is a 2012 cultural anthropology and science-and-technology studies book that investigates the machine-human interface of gambling, focusing specifically on how modern video poker and slot machines are engineered to induce hypnotic states of flow and compulsive behavior in players.
Discussed“but you also mentioned a book I think it was written around 2012 by a cultural Anthropologist named Natasha Dao shul it was called addiction by Design and it talks about how slot machines in particular induce a state of flow”
