what could go wrong with running betting markets like this?
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@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io you could cease being a proper human being and just descend into utter waste of existence
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Where is Polymarket's offices and how flammable are those buildings? 🤷♂️
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@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io oh that site uses actually money?? i had incorrectly thought it was all theoretically and used fake internet points
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@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io If there was one sin that god got right about sending you to hell, it would be gambling.
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@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io Hey, Crassus made himself the richest man in Rome by betting on fires. Well, sort of.
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@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io And I thought I saw some sick shit on the Foresight Exchange back in the Nineties.
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'Upon arriving at the scene, however, the firefighters did nothing while Crassus offered to buy the burning building from the distressed property owner, at a miserable price. If the owner agreed to sell the property, his men would put out the fire; if the owner refused, then they would simply let the structure burn to the ground. After buying many properties this way, he rebuilt them, and often leased the properties to their original owners or new tenants.'
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@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io I really don't want crypto bros burning down my condo to make this line go up.
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@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io @billyjoebowers@mastodon.online oh, you’d rather GOVERNMENT try to reverse climate change when Mark Zuckerberg is sitting right there with all these incentives burning a hole in (the front of) his pants?
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@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io Nothing more than (say) dead pools or sports betting 😉