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The gambling economy has a familiar rule: The house always wins. @hadasthier.bsky.social writes, a Bloomberg analysis found that most profits on Polymarket went to a tiny slice of accounts that appeared to be automated bots. Everyone else lost $131 million in aggregate.
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Silicon Valley fuels them. Wall Street loves them. Prediction markets are everywhere, and ordinary people will pay the price.
The Explosive Growth of Prediction Markets Is a Symptom of a Deeply Sick Economy
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