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141. Is Greed Good?

No Stupid Questions

CHAPTER

The Problem With Making Bold Predictions

Bob Wattell argues that gambling is an honest way to make predictions because you're backing it up with your own money. He says we should look at gambling not as this vice that's practiced only by deviance, but as a kind of potentially wholesome, interactive entertainment which teaches us about probabilistically and multi-factorial analysis.

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