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Re:Economics of sportsbooks and why they ban the best bettors by lovich on Tuesday September 30, 2025 @08:10PM (#45432849)
> It's a deplorable industry.

If we start decrying every industry whose business model is based on information asymmetry we are going to have a lot of uncomfortable folk on this forum

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Re:Economics of sportsbooks and why they ban the best bettors by vkou on Tuesday September 30, 2025 @08:12PM (#45432869)
Perhaps we should. There's no shortage of absolutely predatory behavior out there.
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Re:Economics of sportsbooks and why they ban the best bettors by ProjectArcturis on Wednesday October 01, 2025 @09:27AM (#45437463)
You think he's calling the gambling industry deplorable because of information asymmetry?

Might have more to do with exploiting addiction and ruining lives for profit.

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Re:Economics of sportsbooks and why they ban the best bettors by lovich on Thursday October 02, 2025 @12:17AM (#45446276)
> Might have more to do with exploiting addiction and ruining lives for profit.

Thank you for proving my point. The ad industry and the mobile game industry are both tech based industries that engage in those behaviors just off the top of my head.

If you utilize dark patterns to make a profit and then look down on the gambling industry for abusing addictive behaviors, you are just a hypocrite who wants to excuse their own sins

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Re:Economics of sportsbooks and why they ban the best bettors by ProjectArcturis on Friday October 03, 2025 @06:42PM (#45468675)
What if I think all three of those industries are bad?
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