That is exactly what's going to happen. Exactly what happened to Obama.
Gsus4
"See, you can see the code in binary, it is open source" :D
Ok, how can that be worse?
If investment and retail banks are not separate...you are always touching the stock market.
MBAs solve yet another case, which other problem will they create and solve, but not really, next time?
Not tech, but good news nevertheless :D
"vanishes" from the pockets of buyers into the pockets of the IPOers
I'd just call (ok, text) one or two people who manage whatsapp groups I use the most and ask them to recreate the groups in some other platform, preferrably signal/element or such and add everyone back (via email preferrably). It would be a weird day for people with tons of contacts and groups...but it would not be a calamity...right?
Was it ever popular?
Make them pay proper taxes and force this race to burn money (to "win" at AI and take it all, supposedly) at everyone else's expense into the league of millions, not billions.
tldr
Yeah, they WISH it were like gambling...but it is fraud, insider trading and stock manipulation.