Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas and how animals use their

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Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas and how animals use theirAn anthropologist traces the intimate connections between gambling addiction and casino industry design tactics Recent decades have seen a dramatic shift away from social forms of gambling played around roulette wheels and card tables to solitary gambling at electronic terminals. Slot machines, revamped by ever more compelling digital and video technology, have unseated traditional casino games as the gambling industry's revenue mainstay. Addiction by