Gambling, without even knowing it! And the shops NEVER loses too, like those dealers at the casinos!!! Observations from the Front Page Sections, translated…
The number of the doll machines shops started sprouting up like weeds after the rain, in just last year, the number grew by 210-percent, to a total of 2,859 stores, bringing in close to eight hundred million dollars N.T. in earning annually, these shops started taking over the hotspots in the shopping strips and the night markets too.
From the economical front, the more these machines being everywhere means the shopping strips getting less and less business, it’s a pointer to how the shops aren’t doing as well. The more these machines with shops had been set up, the less the businesses brought in by the storefronts. But, behind the trending of the doll machines, was supported by the consumer psychology. Recent years, the economic growth had, slowed down, with the lower wages, we’d often “reward” ourselves with the kinds of fun we can afford.
The doll machines offer that sense of stress relief, and that temporary sense of achievement, the moment we’d gotten one prize, we’d feel, elated, taken the winnings home as trophies, tell the stories of how we’d “won” them, or we’d, sold them off, to give us more money to toss into the arcades.
And, it’d also reflected the gamblers’ fallacy too. Using just that ten-dollar coin, to “try to win big”, hoping to receive multiples of what we’d invested, and this sort of a high in the mind, made the consumers keep on pulling out their changes.
In the traps of “it doesn’t hurt, it’s just a few dollars”, the consumers forgot how they’d weighed in the real cost of the dolls, and lacked the awareness of how much money they’d, put into the games, plus there’s that “guarantee of throwing in certain amount of coins gives you a prize”, that’s caused the players to keep on pulling the moneys from their pockets.
Actually, this is a game of “tossing in ten to see where it goes” game of zero. The owners of the machines don’t want to lose, would you have a chance to win? There are the rules not written clearly by the owner of the arcades, and, nobody wants to lose money in business, and, in a game of the players never grabs the items, only losing, never winning game, the unprofessional, the irrational players, are always going to come out on the losing end.
And, these shops seemed like entrepreneurship with little money, it’d set up that trap of management. In the places where there are crowds, the rents of the shops are high, plus the modeling of the places, the set up of the machines, there might be the “egg tart effect” that happened, and in the end, the only winners are those with the empty spaces to rent out.
The healing $10N.T. experiences of economics, may be satisfying temporarily, but, it’s also the altar for the irrational, unprofessional players. There’s that downside to what’s trending now, and, are you, the players, still fooled?
And, this is EXACTLY how easily it is, to get addicted! Because when we grabbed that item and got it into the exit and it’d dropped down, we’d feel elated, and it didn’t matter how much money we’d thrown in to the game, we just want to keep that high going, it’s like that addiction to substances, but we’re only losing our money, and not our health too, compared to when we started getting hooked on the drugs, and this, is very dangerous, because there are these god DAMN shops being set up all over the places, approximated one per half-a-block right now…