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boredatomstoday at 3:08 PM2 repliesview on HN

Same thing happened in the early days of Uber, with taxi licenses


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lr4444lrtoday at 4:14 PM

While your analogy is valid, I find it hard to get upset at people who flout an artificially imposed limit to a license to engage in employment.

I'm aware the vehicles and drivers were at first highly unvetted, but the moral impulse that's got everyone so up in arms about prediction markets isn't remotely the same as Uber smashing through antiquated monopolies that existed more by historical accident than any unavoidable public safety need.

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hvstoday at 3:36 PM

And DraftKings/FanDuel