They do this at sports books too. Get good at predicting winners and they cut you off. Gambling simply can't allow people who are good at it to keep playing.

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 17 points 15 hours ago

The largest plot hole with Back To The Future 2. Smh.

[–] WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net 51 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

“Once events that involve good and evil simply become a financial product, I don’t know how right and wrong matters any longer,” he continued. “People shouldn’t be rooting for people to die because they placed a bet.”

America already has health insurance companies. The ship has sailed. It is abundantly clear that financial products are sovereign and morality is an unaffordable luxury. Pay that sucker out!!

[–] Sphere@hexbear.net 25 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

America already has health insurance companies.

As a sitting senator for Connecticut ought to know!

[–] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 26 points 17 hours ago

Pot-meets-kettle moment as sitting senator complains about profiting off the death of Iranian leadership

[–] unaware@hexbear.net 29 points 16 hours ago

What do they mean, Ayatollah Khamenei is alive and well, in fact he was just elected Supreme Leader!

[–] hellinkilla@hexbear.net 15 points 16 hours ago

Eventually there will be some other situation of extraordinary odds where these people can't lawyer their way out of and the company will be destroyed. Hopefully.