'Human futures markets' - Do they actually exist and is there any way of explaining it using easily understood examples?

Hello all,

\*Do point me to an alternative sub if this is better posted elsewhere - I don't know where else to ask\*

I've just finished reading Shoshana Zuboff's 'The Age of Surveillance Capitalism' and feel throughly creeped out as a result. She talks a lot about 'human futures markets' - a new kind of marketplace which trades exclusively in 'prediction products'. So here is what I've gleened:

To create the best 'prediction products', companies like Google and Facebook gather …

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