The fact that the US has turned literally everything into something you can gamble on really shows how much of a failure of a society the US truly is.
The social contract has been dead for 50 years and yet people younger than fifty still out there acting like nothings wrong, and all you need to do is “get a better job” and everything will be fine.
Man I’m not sure getting a better job is gonna help me escape climate change exacerbated wildfires, nor the gambling markets that incentivize arson.
It’s the logical conclusion of “individualism.”
Thanks for the insider info. Someone go put a bet on this guy not escaping climate change or arson gambling markets. /s
You speak as if prediction market gambling started in the US. That’s as much bullshit as claiming it started in your country. Things like this have been going on for hundreds of years.
Yeah, but not at the scale that apps and the internet allow and with the legal backing of the US government.
And before that 50 years ago, what was the social contract like for a black person, a woman, or a native?
Your rosie view of the past, like America was ever a good place, is telling.
nobody said it was a good place. nobody painted a rosie view of it. we can admit when things get worse.
I wonder why do you have the worst takes whenever I see your name. why are you attacking those that are taken advantage of? whats in it for you for attacking this user?
You view this as an attack on the user and not attempting to disillusion as many Americans as possible? I guess it’s more for possible future readers, but it’s definitely not an attack on the user.
I don’t give a fuck about your opinions on my takes lol.
Disillusion about what? does not seem like that user has written anything out of illusions.
I don’t give a fuck about your opinions on my takes lol.
but maybe you should when precisely nobody values what you say
It’s funny that you refer to yourself as nobody, if a little sad.
At least he knows he’s a nobody, you’re the delusional one in this case.
Thanks, doc.
Where ever was there a good place?
A place without slavery, non consentual servitude, any and all injustuce, famine, or disease?
What is the standatd here?
Because the rest of the world is shit doesn’t excuse the countless atrocities of America, lol. Great attempt at deflection, I guess?
Proof you are just a hater.
Do you have any good takes or is your username meant to drip irony and that’s the point?
Are you stupid on purpose or does it come naturally?
I’d say I mostly come by it naturally but sometimes it’s the drugs which, I guess, means it’s also on purpose. So both.
I still can’t decide if you’re an AI bot, a collection of users in a Russian (or other country) troll farm, or just a teenage / early 20s edgelord who’s lost their way looking for 4chan.
Like, honestly, it’s almost impressive how good you are at rage baiting folks. So far i’m going with your username being an intentionally ironic joke.
Edgelord. Ai bots aren’t so self aggrandizing and show more wit.
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I know you don’t. Just musing “out loud” for whoever is wasting their time reading these godforsaken comments.
I just hope your attitude and demeanor offline are better than what you put out on Lemmy otherwise you’re gonna make life harder for yourself than it needs to be.
Insufferable and pretentious. Oof.
No shit you dumbfucks, prediction markets incentivize a fuck load of illegal shit and corruption and should be banned
Even if it were all above board, it’s just gambling and should be heavily restricted just as all other forms of betting.
I’m against gambling, but at least with slot machines and poker tables there isn’t a cash incentive to go light the forest on fire.
With sports betting you are still not allowed to bet on your own games or leauges.
To remove betting on outcomes you control much of.
Given the texts between Daniel Cormier and Trump’s kid, it’s very obvious why they’re allowing this and what extent they’re willing to go to make money.
Yeah, just outlaw prediction markets that contain negative values. or political values, like who cares about weather predictions but anythijg that can change society needs a heavy block
Your first five words were the correct sentence.
Policing online gambling would require an act of congress, a new agency, and a shitload of work just to protect Trump Jr.'s business interests.
These gamble on anything apps are so dystopian it hurts
This shit makes me particularly upset as the current Washington State fires were caused by an arsonist.
10,000 acres burning and only 13% contained.
I’m not even near the fires and I’ve been cooped up inside for days because the AQI is insanely bad all over the state.
The 3 seasons of Washington: windy rain, smoke, and lukewarm rain.
Yeah no shit! What the fuck?!
Fuck every person that takes part in a bet like this. I’ll put them in the same category as Trump voters. Scorched earth.
Just start a betting pool on if the kalshi or polymarket head offices get firebombed in the next 60 days, problem solved either way.
Probably people who live in deserts or otherwise have never seen a tree in their life.
Cactus and sagebrush burns just as well.
People who live in deserts know three things, drought, fires and flash floods. Fires in the desert happen a lot. Probably way more than anywhere else.
Lemme rephrase a bit: people who bet on this sort of thing are probably ones who have only lived in a desert, never having seen a tree in the first place.
I’m sure there’s plenty of fires in a hot place.
Trees exist in the desert
You can bann prediction markets in general
How will they make bank predicting military operations?
Insider trading in my insider trading platform???
It’s……well actually less likely than you’d think but it’s still a big fuckin’ problem.
We’ve had major wildfires started by part time firefighters looking to create some work for themselves. Wildfire gambling is pretty much guaranteed to turn all of our countryside into ash.
I bet you it won’t.
It reminds me of a really great line from the movie Coming To America: “Imagine a country so free one can throw glass in its streets.”
Donald has personal financial interests in prediction markets and his properties probably have private firefighting. What the fuck does he care?
And for the next two years he’s going to have nothing to lose. We’ll see if there’s any America left once he’s done.
I still can’t believe this is a real sentence
But all the other forms of market manipulation are fine. Lol
“Will Iran be bombed today?”
They should make wildlifes illegal and this whole thing will stop /s
Oh man, This is it. I lost the last remaining smidget of hope on humanity.
Can we bet on when/if Kalshi headquarters gets burned down?
That could incentivize arson…
This unironically for every business. Force them to pay us for peace.
Could? You mean “are actively”
Sounds like something Trump would be interested in.