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Why Michael Lewis is worried about the sports betting boom

2025/2/5
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Michael Lewis: 我最初对体育博彩持中立态度,但深入了解后,我对其迅速蔓延和潜在危害感到震惊。我尤其担心它对青少年的影响,许多高中生通过灰色市场应用赌博输钱。体育联盟和媒体公司最初对赌博持谨慎态度,但现在却将其视为增长的引擎,这种转变令人担忧。体育博彩的合法化就像禁酒令的结束,博彩公司利用技术手段引诱人们上瘾,并排除那些精明的赌徒。我认为,我们应该对体育博彩进行更严格的监管,限制广告,提高透明度,并像对待香烟一样对其征税。只有当体育博彩对社会造成严重危害时,才可能引发改革的动力。 Michael Lewis: 我给儿子5000美元去赌博,是为了让他亲身体验赌博的负期望值和市场运作方式。虽然他最终赢了钱,但他意识到自己并不了解市场,赌博的成功完全是运气。我认为,体育博彩公司正在利用技术手段来识别和排除聪明的赌徒,只留下那些容易上瘾的人。这种做法是不道德的,我们需要对体育博彩公司施加更多的责任,以防止他们利用人们的赌博成瘾。

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This chapter explores Michael Lewis's podcast series on the sports betting boom, examining its rapid expansion and unforeseen consequences. It highlights concerns about the addictive nature of sports gambling and the industry's exploitation of vulnerable populations.
  • Rapid expansion of sports betting post-2018 Supreme Court ruling
  • Increased prevalence of gambling among college and high school students
  • Strategic targeting of vulnerable gamblers by betting companies
  • Comparison to alcohol prohibition, highlighting parallels in industry tactics

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It’s hard to remember now. But just a few years ago, sports betting was illegal in almost all of United States. And sports leagues and the media companies that worked with them wanted nothing to do with anything that even referenced gambling.

Things are very, very different now! And it happened so quickly that very few people have stopped to ask what any of this means for America, and what it will mean down the road.

Those questions — and the reasons why so few of us are posing them — turn out to be a great topic for Michael Lewis. You can hear him grappling with them in the excellent new season of his “Against the Rules” podcast series. And I was delighted to discuss all of it with him on my show. It also gave me an opportunity to discuss “The Fifth Risk” - his 2018 book about Donald Trump’s first attempt to take over federal government, which is extra-timely right now. And I couldn’t let him go without a brief chat about crypto and Sam Bankman-Fried.

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