Nick(@ntrlsk):honey I lost my job as a truck driver because they decided to automate the entire fleet. Luckily, I bought 12 event contracts on Kalshi, 11 of them expired worthless, and i paid a ton of fees but we should be able to cover our costs for a few weeks before we lose the house 👌

2025.12.06 02:23

honey I lost my job as a truck driver because they decided to automate the entire fleet. Luckily, I bought 12 event contracts on Kalshi, 11 of them expired worthless, and i paid a ton of fees but we should be able to cover our costs for a few weeks before we lose the house 👌

Daniel Tenreiro@TenreiroDaniel

2025.12.04 17:34

Here’s an example of a positive externality of liquid prediction markets: Software engineers & truck drivers today are at meaningful risk of being automated into obsolescence, but they have no way to price that risk & hedge against it. Prediction markets fix this