I Hate the Manipulation Economy
<p>It was inescapable all December long. There was advertising everywhere — on TV, on billboards, on the internet. Sports betting was arriving in my state on January 1.</p>
<p>I’m not a gambler at all. I’ve been in probably three casinos in my life, and found them disturbing and sad rather than fun. I would rather go on vacation to Tulsa than Las Vegas. But the seemingly endless stream of advertisements promised me lots of free money! So I signed up to become a sports gambler.</p>
<p>I enrolled in three sports-betting apps. Each of these services, of course, has a business model based on addicting people to sports gambling, but each of them employed a slightly different set of psychological tricks to ensnare new customers:</p>
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