Trying to wrap my head around how I get the money to buy the intelligent when I need the intelligence to make money….
Unless they just want me digging ditches until I can afford a middle school education

This and the Kalshi CEO publicly admitting that their goal is to monetize any difference of opinion almost sent me over the edge

that fact that you admit it would happen anyways is very telling though .
and from that point you are basically making the same argument that war on d**** people make, if we ban d**** people will stop using it... its completely ridiculous, people are always going to gamble

Almost feel privileged living through these deeply unserious end times

i could see them creating some "litmus test" for intellect which will probably just end up being eugenics.

Maybe make it seem like UBI for just being "smart"

Just made +$100 on whether the war would end by March 31

There's no system on Earth that is capable of controlling 100% of people's behaviors. If you want to gamble that bad, so long as money exists, you'll find a way. It can even just be shooting dice. It can't possibly be monitored.

But busting illicit gambling rings, banning casinos and sportsbooks, and reducing wealth inequality, will naturally dwindle the amount of gambling people do. Also, expanding universal access to gambling addiction recovery.

Even in most capitalist societies, including the United States to an extent, there are really strict gambling laws that do in fact curb the tendency for people to gamble, and how much they bet when they do gamble. This is just taking it a step further, because high-stakes gambling and socialism just don't work together.

With regard to the specific comparison to the war on d****, there are many deeper dimensions to the failure of the war on d**** versus the desire to prohibit gambling. Self-medicating, chemical dependencies, and the comorbidities/social determinants that steer people to using and even selling illicit d**** is a lot different, in many cases categorically so, than those that motivate gambling behaviors/incentivize the gambling industry. There's really no greater context to gambling besides a purely unhealthy fixation on the rush of betting money. It doesn't do much to relieve pain/anxiety and often spikes the latter. In both cases however, prohibition will only be effective at all if it is matched with universal rehabilitation access.

Not chattel slavery?

i agree d**** are definitely a different type of addiction than gambling and maybe even p*** , but all 3 have the same problem of trying to completely eliminate their consumption . its extremely expensive to enforce and has extremely high demand. how many times have mfs on here argued about the election then say something like "i bet X will win, you owe me 5 bucks" after they get mad. Thats the kind of thing that s*** like polymarket is coming from, yea its exacerbated by capitalism but its not coming from it

But everything you mentioned just sounds like the typical harm reduction stuff that exists today in capitalism sure u can clamp down on it but it would be the same under socialism. Thats why i dont understand why people blame gambling and d*** addiction specifally on capitalism

Like why do you say high stakes gambling and socialism don't work together? aesthetically i get but in principle i don't see a contradiction . This more a values thing than a structural thing

I think bro means like futuristic horrors. Chattel slavery is a time-honored tradition of ruling class insanity

• all 3 have the same problem of trying to completely eliminate their consumption

Effectively eradicating or at least heavily mitigating gambling isn't about criminalizing the people doing the gambling. It's about rehabilitating chronic gamblers and eliminating formal institutions for gambling, especially gambling with large sums of money. The activity is the problem, not (necessarily) the people doing it.

• its extremely expensive to enforce and has extremely high demand

Gambling has high demand primarily due to social conditioning. It doesn't inherently produce value, it doesn't satisfy a human need, and it really isn't even a tangible thing for consumption. It's a recreational habit that evolves out of the money form and wage/profit systems themselves. It wasn't always here, and it doesn't always have to be here.

• how many times have mfs on here argued about the election then say something like "i bet X will win, you owe me 5 bucks" after they get mad.

Making a casual wager between friends is not the same as full-on gambling. The former is a free activity that arises spontaneously and tends to involve very small sums of money. The latter involves going to a specific place/using a specific service to bet the money, typically large sums of it, on utterly speculative, luck-based games and/or predictions. The world can survive with a few friends betting $5 amongst each other. Giving up acres of land to build casinos and betting thousands of dollars on card games or sports is completely unsustainable, hurts communities, drains resources, and is utterly toxic.

• Thats the kind of thing that s*** like polymarket is coming from, yea its exacerbated by capitalism but its not coming from it

Well considering gambling requires money, and capitalism is the current system that not only uses money, but does so indefinitely and as an existential requirement for the system to work, the phenomenon of gambling in the 21st century does in fact originate from the capitalist mode of production itself. Sure, gambling predates capitalism, but it doesn't predate money.

• Thats why i dont understand why people blame gambling and d*** addiction specifally on capitalism

D*** addiction is highly complex and cannot be exclusively attributed to capitalism. However, capitalism plays a major role in contributing to d*** addiction and d*** trafficking. This isn't even denied by pro-capitalist economists, they just believe the capitalist system can be used to. However, gambling is literally a habit formed by betting money, and the system that controls the distribution of money in our society is capitalism. So yes, gambling in 2026 is a direct result of capitalism.

• Like why do you say high stakes gambling and socialism don't work together?

Because you wouldn't have enough money to bet to be classified as high-stakes gambling, and your living conditions themselves would reduce the stakes of gambling.

1) High-stakes gambling, involving tens of thousands of dollars, typically is driven by capitalists. They can afford to fritter this much money away because the money is in fact, mostly, a byproduct of other people's labor that they pocket for themselves on the grounds of "owning the company". Without that massive horde of cash at the top of society, high-stakes betting collapses or at least is severely reduced and indeed cannot be sustained as a major industry.

2) With universal/heavily subsidized housing, guaranteed employment, and universal education/health care, expanded public transportation, a state pension, and price-controlled foodstuffs, the risk you take on gambling is reduced. Gambling isn't inherently high-risk, even when gambling large quantities of money. It depends on what proportion of the money you're betting is disposable income versus savings/money you need to spend for daily survival. With less things you need to pay for/less you need to pay for things, you free up more money to play with, so losing it won't inherently put you out on the street or get your shot by the mafia.

We really betting on the TEMPERATURE now lmao.

Dudes are legit betting on what todays high temperature will be.

This is out of control

That's way pass degenerate gambling, lol.

Worse is betting on war outcomes lmfao

This wouldn’t be so enticing if the wages weren’t so disproportionate to housing costs

People jumping at the chance to bet on f***ing terrorist attacks and goofy s*** is less of a sign of growing degeneracy and more of a sign that the system has f***ing FAILED THE PEOPLE

Wouldn't say it's a sign of either. This is exactly how the system is supposed to work at this stage of the game. Eventually you just run out of conventional s*** to bet on, and/or conventional betting doesn't satisfy the rush, so you bet on this insane s***.

Why do you think the ruling class has so many pedophiles? They get bored of raping poor people so they go after kids. Hedonic ladder and allat