Real SONS OF THE CENTURY
16th - Suleiman the Magnificent
17th - William of Orange
18th - George Washington
19th - Napoleon Bonaparte
20th - Vladimir Lenin
21st - Hideo Kojima
prediction markets will replace buying stuff.
i want someone to bring kiwis to my house.
i make a prediction market about whether someone will deliver 4 kiwis to my doorstep and load $15 into "no". a guy with an ebike sees it and picks up some kiwis.
before dropping them off on my doorstep, he bets yes. he drops them off. the market resolves to "yes" and he gets $15.
rest in peace, amazon, doordash, ubereats, etc.
If babies understood embarrassment, most of them would never learn to walk or speak because of the amount of failure required to improve.
This was one of our first lessons in life but somehow, we forgot