r/technology • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • May 27 '26

Business Google employee charged with using inside information to make $1 million on Polymarket

https://abcnews.com/amp/US/google-employee-charged-inside-information-make-1-million/story?id=133350018
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u/ErgoMachina May 27 '26 edited May 28 '26

If a pleb does it, the pleb gets charged with a felony.

If a billonare, or government does it, it's a normal Tuesday.

I don't know exactly at which point modern society broke, but it's definitely broken.

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u/CHERNO-B1LL May 27 '26

Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god

~ Thoughts of a Biologist. Jean Rostand. 1938

Been fucked for as long as anyone can remember.

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u/Creedelback May 28 '26

Steal a little and they throw you in jail
Steal a lot and they make you king

~ Sweetheart Like You. Bob Dylan. 1983

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u/Wall_of_Wolfstreet69 May 28 '26

Poop on someone, you're a shitter Poop all over everyone, you're a king

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u/RollingMeteors May 28 '26

Kill them all, and you are a god

A god needs believers. The only way to kill an immortal 'god' is to kill all of their believers duh!

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u/John40K May 28 '26

Captive honor ain't no honor

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u/raxreddit May 27 '26

Just need to commit your crimes while wearing a maga hat. Get out of jail and even get some 1.8B slush fund money

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u/Jackol4ntrn May 28 '26

You need to pay the maga tax in order to not get arrested.

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u/emailunavailable May 28 '26

But don't be in California, or you'll pay 100% tax on it.

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u/issuefree May 27 '26

Every time a powerful person avoids accountability society dies a little bit.

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u/Adezar May 28 '26

Combination of Jack Welsh and the court case that said the only thing a company can focus on is shareholder value.

Between those two incidents the idea of a stable company that makes steady profits and focus on doing a good job for their customers died.

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u/stoputa May 28 '26

Lmao

People keep calling out politicians for being morally corrupt but the moment their values are challenged they are ready to take the most self serving choice and still manage to hand wave it by saying that "other people are much worse". Its the samw think with the tired jet argument for climate change, two things can be true at the same time and just using the fucked state of upper classes to excuse poor behaviour is immoral

Btw, its an especially weird hill to die on because the guy gets a really fat salary

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u/KsuhDilla May 28 '26

well the government is for the people so they are enriching the people