Comment on Prediction market trader 'Magamyman' made $553,000 on death of Iran's supreme leader

SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I completely agree. I fucking hate gambling and I fucking hate how much Steam ignores all the damage they’re doing by chasing the easy money.

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• LincolnsDogFido@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Blaming Valve for prediction markets is certainly a stretch…

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  • daisykutter@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Blaming a single person or entity is not accurate, but if I have to pinpoint someone I usually choose this fella:

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    • SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yanis Varoufuckass

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• BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Those that are running the world have decided that they want us to die with nothing, and the new objective is to strip every penny from every citizen. So they saddle middle class workers with a lifetime of college loan debt, and they continue it with overwhelming advertising convincing everyone that they have to own whatever new consumer crap that is being pumped out by China.

  And now they’ve added gambling to our lives, featuring ads showing young men having a great time winning, Winning, WINNING! They never show ads of some guy who is about to explain to his wife that he just gambled away their rent money.

  They want your money, ALL of it, and gambling is just the stupidest way to lose it. You might as well just hand it to them willingly.

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