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Addiction

Design by Natasha Dow Schüll

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Nate Silver recommends it
The third is called Addiction by Design um by Natasha Schüll. And Natasha is an NYU anthropologist who studied Las Vegas as like her thesis, basically. She did like a lot of reporting um just about the properties of slot machines and how addictive they are and about the kind of casino gambling industry in general. And of course, she draws metaphors between that and the rest of uh society. Nate Silver. Thank you very much. Thank you, Ezra.

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