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A small plastic lie detector that converts your ego into clay before your wallet feels it.
means A small, standardized disk used to represent money at a poker table so players bet with plastic instead of cash in hand.
from Chips evolved in 19th-century America as a stand-in for coins and gold dust in frontier gambling halls, where players used everything from carved bone to gold flakes to ivory before clay and then compression-molded composite chips became the standard — easier to stack, count, and (crucially) harder to counterfeit than loose cash.
- original material
- Clay, bone, or ivory before casinos standardized plastic composite
- security tech
- Many embed RFID chips to foil counterfeiters
- psychology trick
- Abstracting cash into chips makes losing feel less real
- weight matters
- Casino chips often weigh more than actual coins, intentionally