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It's traditionally been understood that financial markets exist to allocate capital to its most

productive uses. Recently, however, the definition of a productive use has been expanded to include

betting on whether a reggaeton artist will wear a dress to a

football match. In the past, if you had wanted to place a bet on Bad Bunny's wardrobe choices,

or perhaps the precise timing of an Iranian missile strike, you had to find a man who

conducted his business behind a local pub.

Today the process is a bit smoother.

Through a rather impressive piece of legal rebranding, what the authorities used to call gambling

is now referred to as trading event contracts.

This means that when you inevitably lose your money on these platforms, you're no longer

a degenerate gambler.

You're a retail liquidity provider contributing to a truth machine, which sounds much more

respectable.

I wouldn't necessarily put it on your CV though.

Reading up on prediction markets is somewhat exhausting. Unfortunately, we seem to be determined

to financialise every single aspect of human existence. It used to be that if you wanted to know,

if it might rain tomorrow, you'd just look out the window. But now it seems you have to check

the bid-ask spread on a precipitation swap.

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