I read a thing earlier about polymarket and oh my god is that the most depressing thing I've ever heard of.

It appears that this is especially popular among young men?

What a bleak timeline.

I kept hearing about this stuff on the news, but I hadn't realized how ... gross it all is.

@ajroach42 not sure what you read today, but this insider trading / war profiteering stuff has been getting called the “depravity economy” https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/betting-on-iran-war-insider-trading-concerns-prediction-markets-60-minutes/

@ajroach42 @404mediaco talked about it here

@ajroach42 so was the gold rush. People without hope cling to what little they have