Man these guys make casinos owners look like choir boys in comparison. Casinos will cheerfully lead you down the path to ruin but at least that's just your ruin, not an active incentive to set the world on fire. Like actually, some of what these guys are doing fits the definition of stochastic terrorism.
The real threat is the casual disregard for legal norms as exhibited by tech bro at 6:30. It doesn't help that enforcement is so bad and comes with such pathetic consequences that VC money gets to buy their way out of inconvenient laws at will.
i normally like most of these segments but these one kinda didnt go sufficiently beyond "some ppl feel its macabre" which to me isnt ever a basic for ethics
Easy. Poly market bet the likelihood a prediction market CeO will go through Luigification.
Capital “G”…what about capital “S”? That is just nightmarish!
Man these guys make casinos owners look like choir boys in comparison. Casinos will cheerfully lead you down the path to ruin but at least that's just your ruin, not an active incentive to set the world on fire. Like actually, some of what these guys are doing fits the definition of stochastic terrorism.
Thinking about a trading app that our government officials are involved with knowingly I'm pretty sure it's supposed to be illegal for a reason
Betting on the news is very much the movie Idiocracy
I am now confident that to survive in this economy you’re either a really good scammer con artist or very very comfortably poor.
You can tell very easily that the CEO of Polymarket is a psychopath or something worse
The real threat is the casual disregard for legal norms as exhibited by tech bro at 6:30. It doesn't help that enforcement is so bad and comes with such pathetic consequences that VC money gets to buy their way out of inconvenient laws at will.
27.04.2026 – Polymarket and Kalshi were just declared illegal in Brazil – a country already plagued with the gambling problem.
John Oliver once again using HBO's budget in the best way possible. To buy an inordinate number of women's marital aids.
The argument that it's not gambling because there is no house is so stupid. Poker is gambling whether it's at a casino or with friends.
We are so cooked
The end of humans on this planet could not come soon enough.
Hi, I identify as a ‘dildo’
So Vincent Chase founded a trading platform? Without E as COO?
Tell me the stock market is going to crash without telling me directly please.
i normally like most of these segments but these one kinda didnt go sufficiently beyond "some ppl feel its macabre" which to me isnt ever a basic for ethics
I was waiting for that alien to be hit in the head with a disco ball…
These fucking dweeb tech-bro child CEOs seem completely devoid of morals.
So, trump can bet a million dollars that he will say something in a speech and just say it and win?
Not Heinz beans?! How can you endorse an American bean over the best beans on toast?!
17:23 No one talking about "The odds: 12% chance pope Leo XIV is named Tim" scrolling through the CNN broadcast?
We need to be perfectly clear
Prediction Markets = Gambling.