When Did We Stop Caring?
I started as a dealer in 1992. Back then, the question I got asked more than any other, at parties, at family dinners, by people who’d just found out what I did for a living, was whether the casino cheated. Not whether gambling was risky. Whether the game itself was rigged. People genuinely believed it. […]
When Free is NOT Free
When Is Free Not? The central conceit around something being free is that it is automatically valued for its worth to you because it is not costing you any money. This is not, I would argue, the right way to frame the question. In fact, it is not even necessarily true. There is a belief […]