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A healthy civilisation draws a line around the sacred and refuses to price what's inside it. The line moves, but the line exists.
A civilisation in decay erases that line.
Prediction markets are the clearest single sign our civilisation has entered a late and decadent stage. The reason isn't that they're new or sinister. It's that the case for them is defensible, the technology works, the outputs are useful, but the long-term effect is corrosive anyway.
60 Minutes Australia has always had some interesting DPRK coverage. This one on fake IT workers is really good. They actually catch a few on the line and talk to them. https://youtu.be/kIcw6vpmAHI?si=qWDQXLnaZKmhMiJK
I’d encourage companies build tabletops around this insider scenario.
The collaboration industry gave us Notion, Slack, Jira, Monday, Teams, Clickup, and AI agents trying to rebuild the whole stack.
The average knowledge worker switches apps hundreds of times a day.
And the output = a simulation of collective engagement with very little else...
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