In this episode of The Sense and Senseless Podcast, Bryan and Jason explore Polymarket—the world’s largest prediction market where people trade real-money shares on the outcomes of almost any real-world event. They break down how it works like a stock market for the future: share prices reflect the crowd’s collective probability estimates because participants put actual money behind their beliefs. Examples include multi-million-dollar markets on Fed decisions, geopolitical events, elections, sports, and even pop-culture questions.The conversation then turns darker. Building on past jokes about betting on anything, they reference the “Deadpool” concept from the Deadpool movie (a bar that takes bets on deaths) and ask whether a real version could emerge—not with average people placing the bets, but with elites wagering on the survival of everyday citizens while treating society like a twisted reality game show.They discuss how shows like Survivor, Naked and Afraid, Live PD, and similar programming may condition audiences to view human struggle as entertainment, potentially paving the way for more extreme forms. The “human tax” analogy frames citizens as livestock whose productivity (work and taxes) is extracted on a schedule with limited agency.The episode examines documented history of government actions that treated people as expendable: atmospheric nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site and resulting downwind fallout exposure (elevated cancer risks, incomplete compensation), large-scale nuclear test totals and yields, radium dial painters, military and other experiments on citizens, and official admissions/apologies. The hosts close by asking listeners: given this track record, is the idea of elites turning survival into a televised, bettable spectacle truly far-fetched? #Polymarket #PredictionMarkets #Deadpool #HumanTax #GovernmentExperiments #NevadaTestSite #Downwinders #RealityTV #TheyThem #SenseAndSenselessPodcast #ConspiracyDiscussion #NuclearTesting #RadiumGirls #BetOnAnything #SurviveTheShow