• Octavio@piefed.social
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    1 month ago

    I been wondering how long it was going to take for someone official to realize that “prediction market” just means “gambling.”

    • badgermurphy@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      That seems to be the preferred road to riches today. Make an illegal business, make money as fast as you can while you trip up the legal system as best you can to maximize the time until you have to pay the piper, and if you can make enough before the hammer drops, you pay off the hammer and keep doing it. If not, you pay the hammer its cut (the slap on the wrist fine), then make off with the rest.