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by benced 38 days ago
The value generation is for passive observers: it is theoretically more informative to be told that there is a y% chance of x from someone with a financial incentive to be right.

(also, we allow plenty of zero and negative sum interactions in society. I don't know why this is special.)

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This one is regulated as a commodities derivative rather than gambling

Call a spade a spade, rather than calling it a club because the president’s son is on the board

Corruption is corruption.