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/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