Re:Legalizing Sports Gambling Was a Mistake
by snapcaster on Friday September 27, 2024 @01:53PM
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Agreed that it's not totally clear cut on some of these, but I would just advocate for:
- a recognition that humans have exploits, we're not rational automatons. The power/resource asymmetries in a lot of these industries make it fundamentally "unfair" to model this like we would rational utility maximizers
- evaluate these things in terms of societal harm
That being said, yeah junk food should absolutely be regulated the industry is killing and crippling millions of people right now
- a recognition that humans have exploits, we're not rational automatons. The power/resource asymmetries in a lot of these industries make it fundamentally "unfair" to model this like we would rational utility maximizers
- evaluate these things in terms of societal harm
That being said, yeah junk food should absolutely be regulated the industry is killing and crippling millions of people right now