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Assuming everything physical gets tokenized (as occasionally gets predicted), people could soon literally lose their house on a bet! Maybe even a bet placed by
by kevinsync 7mo ago
Assuming everything physical gets tokenized (as occasionally gets predicted), people could soon literally lose their house on a bet! Maybe even a bet placed by their swarm of agents. The future's so bright, I gotta wear shades!
- testaccount28 7mo agoas a wise guy once said, "a grown man made a wager; he lost."
- pixl97 7mo agoHence why we drastically reduced the number of wagers/addictive risk taking because of its cost on society. The libertarians here will say "oh yay, we've won". Then a few years later they'll cry about your mom losing her house to a gambling scam with no recourse. Then they'll cry again when the voters finally rid themselves of the gambling scourge years later.
- testaccount28 7mo agosome people like gambling. for them, risking money is an efficient way to purchase a thrill. do we not care about them?
- pixl97 7mo agoPeople like doing Crack, do we not care for them?
- testaccount28 7mo agolet's outlaw pulp fiction, and daytime teevee, while we're at it.
- mikrl 7mo agoBet your shirt AND the farm from the comfort of your phone
- Terr_ 7mo agoWorse: It won't even be your own bet that does the damage. It'll be bets collected (or "lost" bets which are actually payments) by other parties that have an interest in an outcome which involves whether you lose your house.