“prediction markets threaten institutional control over truth, not gambling norms”
Response to Axios and More Perfect Union coverage framing prediction markets as gambling. Park argues the investing/gambling line is about +EV, not the game itself, and that the flip side of speculation is always insurance. Contends prediction markets are structurally different from other derivatives because they are precise (binary payoffs create clean basis risk to truth) and have finite expiry, and that fears about insider trading are overblown since liquidity in obscure asymmetric markets will be negligible. Closes with a media-criticism argument that prestige outlets attack prediction markets because the markets threaten institutional control over truth.
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