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You can structure bets to make it matter. Example contract:

Optimist: pays 20 bucks to pessimist now.

Pessimist: pays 40 bucks to pessimist, if world hasn't ended in 2020.



Whenever someone tells me that they believe the world is going to end on a specific date, or during a specific period of time, I offer them this bet:

I will bet you my house and land against your car. If I'm right, and the world doesn't end, you owe me your car. If I'm wrong, you can have my house and land.


You've missed eru's point.


Yes, unless KGIII hands over their house now, and only gets it back plus car the day after the predicted date of the apocalypse.




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