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Re:America Is Slow-Walking into a Polymarket Disaster by nl on Tuesday January 20, 2026 @06:18AM (#46690620)
> Scamming of gambling addicts is tragic but not detrimental to society.

This isn't true.

  each 10 per cent increase in gambling expenditure in NSW results in more than

    4,500 additional assaults
    2,800 additional home break-ins
    1,300 additional break and enter (non-dwelling) offences
    1,400 additional motor vehicle thefts
    2,300 additional stealing from motor vehicle thefts
    3,800 additional fraud offences each year
https://www.connections.edu.au/news/strong-link-between-gamb...

> Stock market integrity is important because of their function in the economy

Some might argue that people - including gambling addicts, and those impacted by their addiction - might possibly be more important than one of many possible financial mechanisms for free enterprise.

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Re:America Is Slow-Walking into a Polymarket Disaster by moring on Tuesday January 20, 2026 @06:57AM (#46690896)
Is that NSW = New South Wales? I'm asking because Wikipedia lists New South Wales as a population of only 8.5 million, and those crime numbers are insanely huge relative to that.
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Re:America Is Slow-Walking into a Polymarket Disaster by rpsw on Tuesday January 20, 2026 @09:31AM (#46692186)
The original paper would be: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/add.16648

The part the article OP linked to would be based off the line:

  To put these percentage changes in terms of interest to policy makers, a 10% decrease in gambling expenditure in NSW would result in 4579 fewer ASS offences; 2867 fewer BESD offences; 1380 fewer BESND offences; 1398 fewer MVT offences; 2361 fewer SFMV offences; and 3793 fewer FRD offences 2 each year
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Re:America Is Slow-Walking into a Polymarket Disaster by trollbridge on Tuesday January 20, 2026 @09:42AM (#46692288)
It is, and some policy proposals have put it forward as the single largest factor of increasing crime.
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Re:America Is Slow-Walking into a Polymarket Disaster by cjs_ac on Tuesday January 20, 2026 @10:14AM (#46692626)
More than half of all physical slot machines in the world are in Australia.
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Re:America Is Slow-Walking into a Polymarket Disaster by initatus on Thursday January 22, 2026 @12:32PM (#46722405)
I can't find this statistic. Do you have a source by chance?

The search this led me down was quite illuminating, so source or not I do appreciate your comment.

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Re:America Is Slow-Walking into a Polymarket Disaster by butlike on Tuesday January 20, 2026 @01:27PM (#46695788)
Right, it's almost like necessity and desperation cause people to do desperate things. If I take your money and give you no resource in return, that's a degeneration.
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