[GenerWork]

You're always going to have some sort of insider leaks, and quite frankly I don't care if they make money off of it in a betting app. This isn't like the stock market which is a vehicle for wealth for hundreds of millions. Gambling/prediction markets are 100% optional to participate in and you should go in with the expectation that you're going to lose.

[unethical_ban]

You're waving away the dangers of government officials having a financial incentive to take actions based not on societal well-being or integrity.

[jacobgkau]

> Gambling/prediction markets are 100% optional to participate in and you should go in with the expectation that you're going to lose.

The stock market is 100% optional to participate in, and every broker tells you (is legally required to tell you, in fact) that you should go in with the expectation that you're going to lose money. That didn't stop whatever forces have made them essentially required to plan for the normal life stage of retirement these days.

[dylan604]

I don't use these platforms so I don't know how the bets are structured. If someone comes along and places a bet that looks very much like insider knowledge, can you only bet against or can you place bets with them like following the shooter in craps?

Betting against something that looks like an insider making the bet really is something willingly done. It's just a dumb bet.

[tech_ken]

> You're always going to have some sort of insider leaks, and quite frankly I don't care if they make money off of it in a betting app

Absolutely garbage take, to be quite honest with you. War profiteering is one of the most heinous crimes imaginable, and the last thing we need in this world is more opportunities for it. Regardless of whether the punters getting screwed consented to gambling or not, the problem is the perverse incentives it creates at the highest echelons of power. Abusing access to military intel for profit is foul behavior that will only degrade the quality of our governance and foreign policy, not to mention the literal lives that will be lost as a result.