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33 sats \ 5 replies \ @Undisciplined 19 Dec \ on: Prediction Markets and the Casino Mentality of 2025 (FT, Gillian Tett) econ
remember that while blind trust in elite technocrats is dangerous, it is also risky to assume crowds are always wise

True thing that is true followed by fake thing that is fake. Which one does the author obviously want you to be more concerned about?

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69 sats \ 4 replies \ @denlillaapan OP 19 Dec

THEY DON'T HAVE CRITICAL EDITORS OVER THERE?!

this looks like a job for me...

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102 sats \ 3 replies \ @SimpleStacker 19 Dec

You and Undisciplined can't take over the FT soon enough

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69 sats \ 0 replies \ @mega_dreamer 19 Dec

FT and all the other traditional news media will be dead in few years. Prediction Markets will be the "new source of news".

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33 sats \ 1 reply \ @Undisciplined 19 Dec

Which one is cheaper? I suspect The Economist, but I suppose one can be a stepping stone towards the other.

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69 sats \ 0 replies \ @denlillaapan OP 19 Dec

I sense a MERGER in the making.

We don't take over one... we swoop in with emergency finance for both and run the two brands (one online, fast news; another print, slow news) from the same company. We can sell it to outside PIPE investors as "synergistic"

mwuuuhahaaa

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