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Disaster capitalism as a carnival prize. Evil.

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One of many things that people should be not allowed to beat against or for.

Prediction markets are out of control and should be banned. Full stop. The CFTC CANNOT REGULATE.

What a terrible idea. Like really terrible.

Sick. Just sick.

How on earth a sensible human will bet on wildfire

Gambling is not our most pressing concern. Providing adequate firefighting resources is.

Don Jr is making a fortune between Kalshi and Polymarket.

We are being turned into a society where everyone can have the opportunity to have a strong financial imperative to abandon pro-social values, just like Trump, techbros & capitalists.

I would think this would just be an incentive for arson. What horrible people we've become.

The history of the world is bad people ruining good ideas.

This alone is not only a whopper of a Darwin award but also a sad reminder that Planet Earth would be sooooooo much better off if humans just disappeared. We really don’t deserve this ONE, unique, planet full of life. bsky.app/profile/jaco...

Betting on any disaster sounds insane! 😡

Despicable

.. the arsonists are watching, listening and placing wagers. and we call ourselves 'evolved' and 'enlightened'

Obscene!

And how many people made their bets come true! Nothing like that should be allowed to exist, period! Shut it down, it's beyond vile...

Hi from Canada; the USA is the way that betting on wildfires is legal. #MORONS

everything is a game when you don’t have skin in it

Wildfires you can start by committing arson? Doesn’t sound like the best idea.

In Terry Pratchett's first Discworld book "The Colour of Magic" The tourist Twoflower introduces the concept of fire insurance The landlord of the Broken Drum tavern takes out an inflated fire insurance policy and promptly burns down his own pub, triggering a fire that completely destroys the city

That's like betting with your uncle on when Grandma flatlines after her stroke

We need to stop this ridiculous idea that people must bet on life's circumstances.

those would actually get stopped, sadly.

A society of debauchery. The gleeful nihilism of profiteering on the misery of others. War on. War off. War on. War off. War...

Wtaf is wrong with these ghouls?

Was it arson?

Not only should it not be legal, it should be criminal.

Thank you Senator Wyden and Senator Merkley

I guess the people that don't want the fire to go out. We'll go out and set more fires? Is that how that's going to work? I think prediction betting is evil.

It worked so well when Ankh-Morpork tried it!

Political Dead Pool.

Insane crap.

Absolutely not! It’s a sign that psychiatric help is needed.

Why don’t they bet about pooping on the sidewalk? As long as you are going to bet on queasy disgusting things.

Betting on disasters should be criminal

Prosecute and regulate the platforms.

No kidding. We are lost.

I do agree. Stuff like that is asking for problems. "U.S. Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley called on federal regulators to ban prediction betting on wildfires"

We apparently have not yet discovered the depths to which human deprivation can dive.

The end of capitalism surely is something

Utterly disgusting!!!