Today’s must-read: Habits once labeled vices are creeping into all areas of life—thanks to our phones.
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“Suddenly, gambling seems to be everywhere,” Christine Emba writes.
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You were always meant to lose money at Dave & Buster’s. Maybe it would be to Pac-Man or the milk-jug toss, maybe to the claw machine and its confoundingly ungraspable stuffies, maybe (and perhaps most painfully) to several middling cheeseburger sliders and an oversize margarita as you watched a football game on a towering wall of TVs. This past spring, however, the restaurant-and-arcade chain announced a new way to help people part with their money: gambling.
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