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antonyttoday at 4:25 PM1 replyview on HN

I'm sympathetic to your point, but at some point other people ruining themselves degrades your experience as well.

I don't gamble and in theory don't care if others do. But prediction markets are affecting sports and possibly governance as well in obviously negative ways.

For this specific issue - the more functionally illiterate, zero-attention-span humans we create, the worse all of our lives will become.


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raffael_detoday at 4:27 PM

there have always been losers, junkies and assholes. i'd rather have some of them but an entire society of adults brainwashed into wearing mental diapers.