How did sports betting become legal in the US?(shreyashariharan.substack.com)

192 points by _1729 1 year ago | 259 comments

Should Sports Betting Be Banned?(maximum-progress.com)

27 points by paulpauper 2 years ago | 38 comments

The Lottery-fication of Everything(dopaminemarkets.com)

71 points by _1729 1 year ago | 30 comments

The American sports plutocracy(derekthompson.org)

54 points by momentmaker 2 months ago | 39 comments

Addiction Markets(thebignewsletter.com)

369 points by toomuchtodo 1 year ago | 415 comments

Matt Stoller's BIG newsletter essay arguing corporate-run gambling and online sports betting are economic coercion and should be abolished.

We haven't seen the worst of what gambling and prediction markets will do(derekthompson.org)

826 points by mmcclure 7 months ago | 576 comments

Derek Thompson essay arguing that the spread of gambling and prediction markets in America will cause worse social harm than people expect.