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creatonez ◴[] No.42135575[source]
Good? These gambling machines are predatory and destructive institutions and needed to be shut down a long time ago. Everything a casino touches turns into hyper-capitalistic dystopia, they are the wealthy elites' worst exploitation, distilled and refined into a poison.

And now they are trying to play with society from the top-down by rebranding as "prediction markets for everything", not only pretending to sell a crystal ball but also setting up the incentives for those at the top of the financial system to destroy society and bet on the destruction of society at the same time. I say: shatter their poker chips, dissolve the house, don't allow them to accumulate any more of this type of power.

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1. deely3 ◴[] No.42138266[source]
You actually have no idea how Polymarket works, right?
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2. creatonez ◴[] No.42141138[source]
Why would you think I don't know how it works? Because I'm calling it a gambling machine and not hyping it up as a prediction market? Is it somehow different from all of the new sports betting sites that have wreaked havoc through the sports industry in a very short span of time? Don't fall for their dumb marketing, it's letting them spread poison.