Could you explain what do you mean? What's the plan and execution here? Planning and executing invasion? If so, there are much better markets than polymarket for making such bets.
I think they all coevolved. Some early human committed both a capitalist and an economic transaction by buying sheep and selling deer, and then bet on the next hunt.
I don't think it does. Capitalism only allows one to save one's fruit of their labor to use down the line. You exchange it for money, then use that money to buy other stuff.
People using it to gamble has more to do with gambling people than with capitalism people. You can have gambling in communism or socialism, only stakes there are limited because the fruit of the labor of people doesn't belong to them like in capitalism.
but hey keep understanding things wrong, surely it helps?
humanity advanced way more under capitalism than anything else in history. This does not mean capitalism is perfect, it's just fits to human greed and human behaviour more. Others systems are worse
Except it does? Capitalist countries don’t seem to have any famines. You could argue that for profit prisons are similar to gulags in some ways but the important differences are so vast it’s hard to compare them honestly.
Capitalist countries don't have famines at home. That's different from "capitalism prevents famines". Capitalism is happy to cause hunger, inflict death, or imprison people if it's profitable for capitalists, that's baked into the structure of the structure of the system. There's no systemic feature of capitalism that directs capital generating activity unless it violates natural and human rights.
Sure keep saying that to yourself. All of you sound so damn sure when speaking about socialism. Like the first nation to pierce the firmament of human fabric wasn't a socialist one. And that the union wasn't making great strides in technology.
Such great strides in technology, their standard of living was so high that their president was literally shocked just by the abundance of food in a normal western grocery story.
Reminds me of the part in National Lampoon’s Vegas Vacation when Clark Griswold goes to the 3rd rate casino and starts betting on weird things.
This is becoming the kind of "VC platform for online war investments". You: 1. Plan 2. Bet 3. Invest money upfront 4. Execute 5. Redeem your profits
Could you explain what do you mean? What's the plan and execution here? Planning and executing invasion? If so, there are much better markets than polymarket for making such bets.
Now, can you find enough liquidity in the market to turn a profit? Can you find it before it becomes aparent something is off in the bet?
honestly the profits aren't big enough when you can just go into business if you have that kind of influence
> There is now more than $500,000 (£371,000) staked on whether Russia will capture Kostyantynivka this year .
Now everyone has a chance to profit from war ! Thank you Polymarket
War profiteering for the people!
'Capitalism': the inevitable reduction of all humanity to fungible currency
The price of everything and the value of nothing.
Capitalism is just a projection of our natural competition for scarce resources onto an economic system.
Betting with one another predates any notion of capitalism, or economy.
I think they all coevolved. Some early human committed both a capitalist and an economic transaction by buying sheep and selling deer, and then bet on the next hunt.
True, but capitalism eventually makes gambling the whole economy.
How?
I don't think it does. Capitalism only allows one to save one's fruit of their labor to use down the line. You exchange it for money, then use that money to buy other stuff.
People using it to gamble has more to do with gambling people than with capitalism people. You can have gambling in communism or socialism, only stakes there are limited because the fruit of the labor of people doesn't belong to them like in capitalism.
alternative is gulag(s) and literally famine(s)!
but hey keep understanding things wrong, surely it helps?
humanity advanced way more under capitalism than anything else in history. This does not mean capitalism is perfect, it's just fits to human greed and human behaviour more. Others systems are worse
Capitalism neither prevents gulags nor famines.
And you can bet (pun intended) someone will create them on purpose if they can make profit from it
Doesn't the US already have an above average incarceration rate and private prisons? Maybe, just maybe, there's some relation?
"Above average" is underselling it: the US has by far the the highest incarceration rates of the rich world [1]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarcera...
It actually did prevent lots of famines.
Please do share what capitalist country had a famine in the past century.
Give it a bit!
https://www.npr.org/2026/03/26/g-s1-115240/iran-war-strait-h...
(I'm being snarky here, but COVID definitely exposed some supply chain vulnerabilities.)
Lots of African countries have market economies and also poverty and hunger.
Poverty and hunger are not famine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_famine_of_1943
Niger springs to mind, massively capitalist with a lot of oil and mining
Except it does? Capitalist countries don’t seem to have any famines. You could argue that for profit prisons are similar to gulags in some ways but the important differences are so vast it’s hard to compare them honestly.
Capitalist countries don't have famines at home. That's different from "capitalism prevents famines". Capitalism is happy to cause hunger, inflict death, or imprison people if it's profitable for capitalists, that's baked into the structure of the structure of the system. There's no systemic feature of capitalism that directs capital generating activity unless it violates natural and human rights.
Sure keep saying that to yourself. All of you sound so damn sure when speaking about socialism. Like the first nation to pierce the firmament of human fabric wasn't a socialist one. And that the union wasn't making great strides in technology.
Agree, comrade. 140 million dead are a small price to pay for our socialist utopia.
We just need one more chance.
Such great strides in technology, their standard of living was so high that their president was literally shocked just by the abundance of food in a normal western grocery story.
Whether you like it or not, socialism is the key.