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Ka-Ching! Pokie Nation
2016 · Film · documentary · 52 min
Directed by Jane Manning
In this ground-breaking expose, industry insiders go on the record to explain how carefully Pokies are programmed for addiction. They’re joined by world-leading neuroscientists, taking you into the lab to reveal how these machines work on the deepest levels of our brains, leading some researchers to call them “electronic morphine”. And, we reveal how successive Australian governments have become the biggest addicts of all. This documentary puts the pokie machine on trial.
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I saw a documentary about Pokies that suggested that this framing of gambling as being an individual's problem instead of a problem with an industry that is specifically designed to use weaknesses in human psychology to extract the maximum amount of money from them was a deliberate tactic to prevent useful legislation being passed, because it's then up to the gambler with the problem rather than the institution of gambling to control their gambling.
Never mind that those people are literally the least qualified to control their gambling addiction.
If anyone's interested, it was called "Ka-ching! Pokie Nation" http://www.abc.net.au/tv/programs/kaching-pokie-nation/