Well, look, it's not my chief beef.
Chief beef?
What is your chief beef?
I'm Angela Duckworth.
I'm Stephen Dubner and you're listening to.
No stupid questions today on the show.
Is gambling driven by greed?
What is greed?
It's wanting more and never feeling satisfied.
Angela, you and I were talking recently offline, and you had taken note of the rather rapid rise of legal sports betting in the US, especially through apps like Fanduel and DraftKings.
Yeah, I'm inferring that from just seeing these advertisements like all the time.
Oh, yeah.
Cause Jason watches basketball and stuff and it's like, holy smokes, what is going on?
Yeah, they are out there and we can talk about that.
But you also mentioned a book, I think it was written around 2012 by a cultural anthropologist named Natasha Dowell Schul.
It's called addiction by design and it talks about how slot machines in particular induce a state of flow.
And then I think what happened in our conversations, you put two and two together and we were also thinking about this series we've been doing on the seven deadly sins.
And you wondered aloud to me whether the so called sin of greed fits into this.
The degree to which gambling or gaming may be driven by greed.
Is that about right so far what I've said?