All human processes can be reduced to slot machines if you go abstract enough. By extension that includes all games. My criticism was that what this make the e

All human processes can be reduced to slot machines if you go abstract enough. By extension that includes all games. My criticism was that what this make the exchange so blatantly abusive. All those psychological mechanisms to "ensure engagement" and "pursue the whales" (or whatever soft term they come up for them) ... makes me sick. I actually think I prefer a slot machine to this. It is less dishonest.