What Next: Gambling on Elections, What Could Go Wrong?

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Slate

Society & Culture, Technology, History

4.6 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Forget polls—are gambling websites the real way to predict politics? Guest: Nitish Pahwa, business and tech writer at Slate Want more What Next? Subscribe to Slate Plus to access ad-free listening to the whole What Next family and across all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of our show page. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to get access wherever you listen. Podcast production by Elena Schwartz, Paige Osburn, Anna Phillips, Madeline Ducharme and Rob Gunther. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.8	Amazon offers term time working to their employees, like Anton,
0:07.4	who's home to look after his daughters during their holidays.
0:10.0	Hello!
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0:17.2	Actually, maybe that's the best sound of all.
0:21.5	Now that's term time working.
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1:06.5	So can you just humor me and can we explore one of these prediction market sites together?
1:14.0	Absolutely. Let's do it.
1:15.7	Let's go to Polymarket.
1:18.6	I'm sitting here with Natish Pawa. He writes about business and tech for Slate.
1:23.6	We've both got our laptops open and we're checking out polymarket.com.
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