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by ed_balls 85 days ago
Any sort of gambling should be limited to, say 20% of your average yearly tax (last 5 years). Prediction market should be banned.
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That seems to imply concern for the gambler, who at least has chosen to play.

A much bigger problem might be when these markets bet on a meatspace event and then a bunch go out and try to influence innocents in meatspace, to great detriment of society. Like this journalist https://readwrite.com/threats-israeli-reporter-polymarket

> Any sort of gambling should be limited to, say 20% of your average yearly tax

How about you let people decide what they do with THEIR own money?