Bitcoin Prediction Markets {talk}

Employers (such Uber and Amazon) monitor their workers very carefully, so as to extract every last possible drop of performance. In contrast, politicians are almost never monitored (most citizens do not even know their representative's name). And they are almost never fired at all (re-election rates are 80-90%), let alone for underperformance. Politicians work very little, get paid very much, have no idea how to do their job properly, and inflict their bad policies on the rest of us. What if we …