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

• captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s remarkable to me how normalized gambling has become in the past decade. It used to be something for special occasions like vacations or church events (catholic lenten fish fries completely lost the plot and basically became carnivals where I grew up). Fantasy sports leagues had become a big thing before then, but in the past decade or so it’s like the dam just completely collapsed and problem gambling has become normalized

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