The Conversation: Crypto platforms feel like gambling because they are: Users are drawn to high-risk behaviour . “Gamblification is a crucial lens for understanding how crypto exchanges maintain engagement even as users incur losses. In our study we show how features like real-time leader boards, visual effects and meme-based communities frame trading as a communal and entertaining […]
🧵 « #Gamblification » des jeux mobiles gratuits [pour enfants]. #Dépendance
« Initier une fillette de 9 ans au casino ? L’idée n’effleurerait jamais l’esprit de Shanon Pasquier. Mais depuis que sa fille explore l’univers sans fond des jeux mobiles gratuits, elle constate que l’industrie n’a pas les mêmes scrupules. »
Des dizaines de jeux mobiles gratuits – et ultrapopulaires – initient les enfants à l’univers des jeux de hasard et d’argent avant même leur entrée à l’école. En plus de les « dresser à devenir accros ». C’est la conclusion d’une enquête québécoise inédite, qui dissèque le fonctionnement de 249 jeux.
Photo: @JTB 7/9/2023
Walk outside amongst flowers. Reject appslavery and crimes against humanity perpetrated by monopolies of the global gig economy cabal. Deception, #gamblification, and fraud CONCEIVED to end employment characterize these corporate-AI driven atrocities.
That's pure twiddling. Twiddling turns #gamification into #gamblification, where your labor buys you a spin on a roulette wheel in a rigged casino. As a driver called Melissa, who had doubled down on her availability to earn a $100 bonus awarded for clocking a certain number of rides, told Dubal, "When you get close to the bonus, the rides start trickling in more slowly....
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