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I wouldn't be so fast to dismiss the causal links. Online games have a strong gambling component - lootboxes, randomized awards, etc. An advance enough, Skinn

by Ygg2 1y ago

I wouldn't be so fast to dismiss the causal links. Online games have a strong gambling component - lootboxes, randomized awards, etc. An advance enough, Skinner box is indistinguishable from slot machine.

HideousKojima 1y ago
Except you actually sometimes get money back from the slot machine, with gaming lootboxes/gacha/microtransactions you're just getting imaginary digital goods that will disappear as soon as the company shuts down the game's servers.
- sdenton4 1y ago
  First currency is only as good as the government that prints it, maaaan. (/me hits bong, buys more bitcoin.)
- Ygg2 1y ago
  You are being trained to earn intermittent rewards. Not to earn money. Getting money is merely a formality/justification.