France has blocked access to the Polymarket betting website, the country’s gambling regulator ​said on Friday, citing concerns it could expose users to ‌significant gambling losses and that some wagers offered on the platform could be manipulated.

    • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      it’s pretty wild that our ‘answer’ to economic issues is… to promote gambling and financial speculation as ‘growth’.

      it is basically the financial equivalent of pushing cigarettes as a solution to healthcare issues.

      and idiots drink it up, thinking cigarettes will make them cool, and gambling will make them rich.

      god forbid western countries to the hard work of… actually investing and building their economies… no sir!