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by sneed-oil 62 days ago
I guess I'm one of those suckers, except that so far I've made a 3x return on the small sum I bet, I would say it's a hedge. I’ve been betting on the Iran war since mid February, the reasoning was that if the conflict happened, my payout would offset some of the jump in my cost of living. I could have used traditional financial instruments to buy options or oil futures or gold, but there's more friction there and I already had some crypto.
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Ah yes, the war futures exchange keeping us able to afford food.

Somehow 2026 took the Ancient Rome model of profit from destruction and enshitified and made it even worse and more grotesque. WTF are we even doing?