…the next pick to the people who saw you pick the “winner”. Now half of those people see one team, the other half see you pick the other team, and whoever saw you pick the winner thinks you’ve got a 100% accuracy rate over two games. You could do that for a while and then offer to sell your pick for the Superbowl. Starting with a big enough group in the beginning, this might be really lucrative.

But is it legal?

  • Staple_Diet@aussie.zone
    3·
    9 months ago

    However, even if it doesn’t, it’s a really fucked up thing to do because it’s conning people out of money using a scam.

    So just the stock market then?

    • AeroLemming@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      The stock market is a huge part of why society sucks so much. Publicly owned corporations are beholden to shareholder profits above all else, including morality.