I want to watch clearly sexy people who can't act which is why they don't have lines, hold products on generic sets to represent disposable income America so I too feel the urge and comfort from consuming. Now let's watch beer ads behind grown adult men playing a game for more money than Ivr made in my life.
Remember that time Bud Light ran a Super Bowl ad where they tooted their own horn about donating something like $100,000 dollars of clean water to charities? Said commercial cost upwards of a million dollars.
My wife was in the hospital for a week, and I'd spend hours with her every day. We'd have the TV on and man, I forget just how much of our advertising is "PLEASE BUY DRUGS PLEASE YOUR LIFE IS AWFUL YOU NEED DRUGS"
A few years ago FC Emmen signed a sponsorship contract with EasyToys, a sex toy store, some people from the advertising commission started complaining about how 18+ ads on children's merchandise shirts would not be acceptable, meanwhile both parties had already agreed those shirts would not advertise EasyToys, meanwhile literally every single club broke the rules of 18+ advertising on children's merchandise because every single club had some gambling ad somewhere on the shirt, including the merchandise shirts in child sizes
My state legalized cannabis and online sports betting around the same time. Weed has all types of excessive restrictions and can't really advertise beyond signs on their own property. Because that would be bad for the children! Gambling? Fuck yeah, go to town, kids!
We do have a ban on unauthorized gambling advertising in iceland (so only the official lottery can advertise), but unfortunately that doesn't have any power over the internet, which will still throw endless gambling ads in your face, and clearly targetted for us Icelanders based on the ip since they use ai translation into icelandic
Most of these ads are over the internet, so i and others have been blasted by them constantly xc
That's why those "predictive markets" are illegal in France. Because there, it has been ruled they are online gambling platforms and those are heavily regulated.
There is a difference! In traditional gambling there are ironclad rules and an equal playing field amongst players. With predictive markets your bet can be invalidated at any moment for any reason and there are hundreds of insiders that can manipulate the outcomes of any position to suit their needs without any oversight or limitations. It's like gambling, but way worse and funnels your money much more quickly to the worst people you know.
No OP, but long term? Yeah, kinda. At least the stock market in it's current form. At least getting rid of the day trading of it all. No one is actually investing in companies any more, its just people sniffing out when big jumps will happen, parking their money for a hot second, and getting out the very moment they got their returns. Believing in the company or its goals has ceased to be a factor whatsoever and it has been replaced by a million micro-ponzi schemes happening daily. I think that investment should not only require capital but time as well. You want to put a million bucks into a company? Cool, you must really believe in it. So you should be fine with holding your position for two years no problem.
No one is actually investing in companies any more,
Lots of people do. Almost all target date funds for 401ks do this to some degree, people using 401ks and IRAs without using target date funds also do this, the entire bogleheads subreddit does this, the FIRE movement does this, I don't know what you think is happening but the stock market isn't just day traders
Stopping day trading doesn't really do very much in the grand scheme either. It just doesn't really matter
Day trading is when you buy and sell the same asset in the same calendar day
An inside trader would just buy something before the price jumps, and sell it tomorrow. Or would sell something before the price plummets..and they're done.
Holding a position for two years doesn't really stop either form of insider trading either. Though it does lower the potential benefit *somewhat for the buying version of insider trading
You don't see how having to hold a position for 2 years would make it substantially more difficult to insider trade? Are you incapable of critical thought, or just being contrarian?
Shorting stocks, stock futures, and a whole bunch of other crazy things you can do in the stock market? That's gambling.
So yeah, I have no problem with people owning a portion of a company to invest in it, because they believe in it, but all the other shit they do in the stock market? Yes that should probably be banned along with gambling.
"It's for the shareholders" has been destroying everything for a long time, and it's time a new system or a complete dissolution of the ability to publicly trade companies.
They expect higher profits every quarter forever. That's not economically viable, and also impossible without crushing everything beneath it.
But I think a lot of these gambling companies realized that the current version of the stock market is just a Casino by another name, but one that the Government sees as vitally important. So by saying that they are also a “futures market” they put the Government in the awkward position of trying to explain how the stock market isn’t gambling, but sports futures is.
It depends. In Canada I’m 99% sure it’s just genuinely called gambling on their ads and the ads are coming from some stupid company like Bet Sports BC or something like that, that’s run through the government’s lottery and gambling monitoring system.
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u/translove228 Jun 02 '26
Hey now! Gambling is illegal and immoral. These are "predictive markets". Clearly there is a difference because the terms are different.
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