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> A few years years ago, there was no conceivable profit motive for interfering with weather sensors on public property.

I have bad news for you. The manipulation of weather sensors for profit has a history that long pre-dates prediction markets. You just weren't paying attention until now.

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> The manipulation of weather sensors for profit has a history that long pre-dates prediction markets.

Okay, I'm intrigued about what I've missed. Give me more information about this history, please.

Example, some countries have laws about operating factories or construction sites in when the outside temperature is too high. So they have artificial underreported those for decades.

Yeah, I'm aware of warehouses that underreport their interior temperatures so that they don't have to give their employees adequate ventilation and breaks. Amazon in particular.

It's really bad, but it's not quite the same society-pervading incentive for data manipulation.

It happens at the country and/or city level. I figure that counts as a society.

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