Strange response, do you believe that society has always had access to online gambling, in the same way that alcohol and drugs have been around forever?

alcohol prohibition has always been difficult because it's so tied into food and social culture. Tobacco use has been extremely successfully restricted, harder drugs and gambling also remain prohibited in many countries.

You may not be aware of how rapidly and historically unprecedented gambling has spread in the US in the last few years. More than half of all men aged 18-49 participate in some form of online sports betting (https://futurism.com/future-society/men-aged-18-to-49-hooked...)

There aren't too many places where you can order beer from Amazon.

Even without the addiction problem, a business that allows you to bet on anything happening in society is bound to be the largest vehicle for corruption in the history of mankind. This is a threat to democracy and stability that actually undermines our freedom. Prediction markets should never have been allowed to exist, and if the US is willing to protect this industry, the rest of the free world should sanction it out of existence.

The problem about more-heavily taxed is that the gambling companies have spotted this and are registered in off shore tax havens.

Websites often rotate titles now to improve their performance.

Maybe Kalshi doesn’t care about this, but if the goal is accurate predictions, prediction markets need someone to lose money to fund the sharps, or the markets won’t be big enough to be worthwhile.

In some traditional markets, a source of funding is investors who are hedging, essentially buying insurance.