If I hear anyone mention that they participate on these markets, I instantly look down on them. Fucking pathetic garbage. You want to make money? Do some fucking work. Contribute to society in some way. Betting on whether a wild fire will consume a town, or a school will be bombed, or a country toppled, makes someone a irredeemable piece of shit.
Honestly, the whole goddamned stock market should be razed to the ground, salted earth. Workers need to be the ones in control of the companies, not those who think money is what can buy power and control. It all serves to funnel paper up to the capitalists who control it all. How are prediction markets any different? Burn it all down.
Other factions were too busy trying to push their own ideas into the movement, and it became this generic mess that didn’t inspire anything. Nobody really knew what it stood for.
And with the attitude of the group, there was no “burning” anything down.
I used one to bet on a football game when they first came out, but all the non-sports things to gamble on gave me the ick pretty fast. I’m not even a big gambler but if I decide to add some extra spice to a game i plan to watch in the future I’m just going to a sports book, casinos are scummy as hell but for the most part gaming regulations are followed on at least a surface level and you can’t win money on the purposeful suffering of other people or something equally tragic. Or you couldnt last I checked
The ubiquity of gambling culture is killing sports too, which is also much less of a danger but speaks to how when completely unchecked it will ruin everything. I don’t know too many fans of any sport that don’t at least kinda think things are so out of hand it’s calling the legitimacy of the game into question
Tbf a big portion of the stock market - ie oil and arms industry investments - has been “betting whether a school will be bombed or a country toppled” for a long time. This is just a more mask-off version of what America has always been.
Which I don’t say to defend it. Exactly the opposite.
If I hear anyone mention that they participate on these markets, I instantly look down on them. Fucking pathetic garbage. You want to make money? Do some fucking work. Contribute to society in some way. Betting on whether a wild fire will consume a town, or a school will be bombed, or a country toppled, makes someone a irredeemable piece of shit.
Honestly, the whole goddamned stock market should be razed to the ground, salted earth. Workers need to be the ones in control of the companies, not those who think money is what can buy power and control. It all serves to funnel paper up to the capitalists who control it all. How are prediction markets any different? Burn it all down.
Occupy Wall Street should’ve been the start of burning it all down.
Other factions were too busy trying to push their own ideas into the movement, and it became this generic mess that didn’t inspire anything. Nobody really knew what it stood for.
And with the attitude of the group, there was no “burning” anything down.
I used one to bet on a football game when they first came out, but all the non-sports things to gamble on gave me the ick pretty fast. I’m not even a big gambler but if I decide to add some extra spice to a game i plan to watch in the future I’m just going to a sports book, casinos are scummy as hell but for the most part gaming regulations are followed on at least a surface level and you can’t win money on the purposeful suffering of other people or something equally tragic. Or you couldnt last I checked
The ubiquity of gambling culture is killing sports too, which is also much less of a danger but speaks to how when completely unchecked it will ruin everything. I don’t know too many fans of any sport that don’t at least kinda think things are so out of hand it’s calling the legitimacy of the game into question
Into question? lol that ship sailed years ago. It’s all as fake as reality tv now.
Tbf a big portion of the stock market - ie oil and arms industry investments - has been “betting whether a school will be bombed or a country toppled” for a long time. This is just a more mask-off version of what America has always been.
Which I don’t say to defend it. Exactly the opposite.