• Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    13 hours ago

    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.

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      6 hours ago

      Thanks for the insider info. Someone go put a bet on this guy not escaping climate change or arson gambling markets. /s

    • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
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      4 hours ago

      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.