Tuesday, March 10, 2026

How Gambling Ate the World: In less than a decade, betting apps swallowed sports. And now they’re doing the same to the news.

https://newrepublic.com/article/207374/gambling-sports-news-united-states

"There is something fundamentally anti-human about the transformation of every victory and every misfortune, every event, incident, outcome, opinion, intention, or accident into an occasion for a wager. How can we govern ourselves—and I mean this in both the political and the old-fashioned, personal sense—if we replace conscience and consciousness with nothing more than a guess? Whether a person or a society, those that take as a guiding attitude that they have nothing to lose will soon discover that it’s become literally true."

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