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We Haven’t Seen the Worst of What Gambling and Prediction Markets Will Do to America
(www.derekthompson.org)
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this post was submitted on 27 Mar 2026
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Yep, as the cliche popularized by Mark Twain goes:
Thank you for confirming my skepticism of the interpretation by the author you shared. I think the author is definitely to blame for the bad interpretation, and perhaps motivated by the contradiction of also still wanting to defend gambling even despite the headline.
The author is one of the Abundance libs. He's got Peter Thiel connections.
(Edit:) Embarrassing: Peter Thiel's Zero to One Might Be the Best Business Book I've Read
Peter Thiel connections deserves to downgrade this automatically to !slop@hexbear.net IMHO
Agreed. I figure the only reason Derek Thompson isn't as loathed as Ezra Klein or Matthew Yglesias around here is that he's somehow more forgettable.