"Prediction market trader 'Magamyman' made $553,000 on death of Iran's supreme leader"

What you are failing to see, is that every war is actually an opportunity, for sociopaths to make more money than a single mom working 3 jobs for a decade

Pay-day loans for teens, legal gambling on assassinations, re-introducing child labor: I have to admit, every new grotesquerie the free world has to offer does always seem to surprise me

@ekis
"... I have to admit, every new grotesquerie the free world has to offer does always seem to surprise me..."

🤔
Really? I'm not surprised at all.
I knew there would be a time when my study of pessimism finally paid off.

"The only value of this world lay in its power - at certain times - to suggest another world."
- Thomas Ligotti