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> if there is a legal market for betting on election events with billions or trillions on the line, eventually someone will interfere with an election. There a
by JoshTriplett 2y ago
> if there is a legal market for betting on election events with billions or trillions on the line, eventually someone will interfere with an election.
There are already billions or trillions on the line, and people have far larger incentives already. Betting wouldn't appreciably add to that.
- webstrand 2y agoI'd argue that it will, this introduces incentives for parties that were previously disinvolved.
- no_wizard 2y agoThis is key, it will push more people toward this, not away, because betting is available across all income brackets unlike say, hiring a lobbyist, of which lobbying has rules and regulations that at least in theory are suppose prevent these sorts of things