Personally I see nothing wrong with prediction markets, so it feels weird to see people around here freak about it as if it was the antichrist put in place by <current politicians they don't like>.

I did a startup with one back in 2008... it resulted in some bizarre outcomes

https://www.computerworld.com/article/1584145/idg-revives-th...

1) Winners could influence future outcomes. 2) The more they won the more they could influence outcomes.

This seems to be a pretty good mirror of today's society no?