Between the gamblers and the disappeared, there is almost no space left for the old model: the person who plants a tree knowing they'll never sit in its shade.
Everything's Casino On the evening of February 28, 2026, American B-2 bombers lifted off from Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri. By the time they reached Iranian airspace, Tomahawk missiles were already in flight from submarines in the Persian Gulf. Operation Epic Fury hit over a thousand targets in its
@Daojoan excellent article!
You alluded to the Robinhood scandal, but I was expecting you to also bring up Polymarket, and the fact that people were betting on the date of the Iran invasion which led to the Israeli government investigating some of the bets as potential security leaks.
There is a whole cluster of “Prediction Market Platforms” now, not just Robinhood and Polymarket, letting people bet on anything. I’d say this is another symptom of exactly the illness you are describing in this article.
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