Casinos use design elements like elimination of natural light and clocks, and intermittent random reward schedules to encourage short-term thinking.

“Vegas is all about short-term thinking and short-term reward contingency it's actually designed in every respect to get you for to forget that there are these other longer time scales and that's why there's no natural light in most casinos lights there's no clocks in many of them um the uh the intermittent random intermittent reward schedule that there is designed to keep you playing”