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Substack doesn’t want writing or journalism – they just want profit

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Polymarket and the contentification of the entire platform

Photo by Amit Lahav on Unsplash None of this is new. The tech-libertarian bros who run Substack have always been chasing the money. But now they’re partnering with Polymarket , the gambling app that masquerades as a “prediction market” and pretends to have some beneficial value to society. Namely, Polymarket claims that everyone betting on everything gives us some better idea of what the future might look like. People with money riding on an event are more incentivized to make accurate guesses, and in the aggregate they claim this acts like some sort of hive mind. And, of course, the bettors d

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