> I think it's a slow process, where they get you used to spending a couple bucks every few days or something like that, until you're spending $10 a week, and then $100 a week, because you've just gotten used to the idea that this is “worth” spending money on.
Grooming, essentially. Or we could view it as an exact parallel to the deadening of the conscience that we are taught happens gradually when a person commits very small venial sins because they are not a big deal, then commits deliberate v…
Sounds like a new chapter for Screwtape Letters--how to get kids/people hooked on video games, then slowly introduce morally worse things into the games...