If you look in a slot machine, you can look in the window where the reels come up and you can see these little counters there. And you think you can figure out what those digits mean. But what you also think is that they know that I'm looking through this window at this counter. They're one step ahead of us, always. Knowing you're being seduced doesn't really vitiate the effectiveness of the technique.
Policy debates about gambling always focus on the fact that it's exploiting people's monetary needs.
I think it is exploiting people. I think there's no question of that. I'm not particularly a proponent of gambling. The state is very high on gambling because they made a lot of money. A lot of people got jobs.