Post #1490146

I like watching Last Week Tonight, although it is often upsetting. The most recent episode on Prediction Markets hit me a lot harder than I expected. I dunno. Clearly there are worse things going on in the world. But the sort of hyper-capitalist nihilism these apps represent is profoundly depressing to me. It's even worse to see this being promoted by the Trump administration and adopted by young people. "The world is burning, might as well make a quick buck off of others' misfortune" is just such a bleak and toxic ideology. Where is our empathy? Where are our aspirations for anything besides wealth and status? It makes me so sad that people think like this.