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- Is there any niche yet capitalism has not exploited to its fullest? Why do we think it wouldn't here?by colingauvin
- Is there not a prediction market for senator crackdowns too?by kelseyfrog
- These senators who don't want people to gamble on, profit from, and create/fuel horrific disasters all have Ds after their names while the person they're begging to do something to stop this, Michael Selig, has an R after his name and also worked as a corporate lawyer for cryptocurrency firms and prediction markets before he was appointed by Trump to regulate those same industries.
This "demand" letter will be ignored, or at most laughed at. The letter is just a PR piece, a reminder to the public of who wants to help them instead of profit off of them, but it's not going to solve the problem. I sure hope they plan on doing a lot more than signing a strongly worded letter.
by autoexec - This is insane. Predictive markets should already be illegal in the first place but to allow things like this is just insaneby sixQuarks
- Prediction markets allow us to quantify risk. (Un)expectedly we learned that the existence of a prediction market for an event increases its risk as long as someone capable of triggering the event stands to gain financially from its outcome.by kelseyfrog