CGP Grey's "The Rules for Rulers" (on YouTube) may also be relevant here.

Note that the Fourth Amendment applies only to residents of the US [1], but not to the other 99.5% of the human population.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Verdugo-Urqui...

It doesn't actually matter that much who actually writes the check to the government (although in the US, both parties pay taxes).

Either way, the total cost of employment is higher for the employer than the after-tax income of the employee.

This is Polymarket, not Manifold. It's not "anyone can create a market and can resolve it however they want". Polymarket creates the markets and resolves them, so an unfair resolution could undercut their reputation and hurt their business. People know what "Jesus returning" means and if they interpret it some other way people won't just say "oh well I guess that was technically within the criteria".

Again, this is in the article! If you want to argue it's a problem, you should start by responding to what the article has to say on the subject, not just asserting it from scratch as if it isn't discussed!

Somewhat related: does there exist a technology where I can encrypt something in a manner that it can only be decrypted after a specific future date? If theoretically possible, what would it take for something like that to exist? ie. "We'd need an authority to broadcast some ongoing pseudorandom number generator that can be trusted" or whatnot.

Zuckerberg is unusually powerful in the company, due to how it's structured (note that few companies of this sort of size are run by their founders...), and he's unusually unhinged.