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Insider trading is definitely frequently used to unfairly beat the market but in your friends defense, there is a difference between knowledge of current world and market conditions and insider trading.
Current world and market conditions (non-insider trading) are baked into the prices already.
Are they? When most of the money going into the market is through blind index fund investing, any assumption that stocks are rationally priced seems completely unjustified.
Someone is able to profit off of it, but you have to be far faster than any of us could ever hope to be. There's a lot of money spent on trying to shave nanoseconds off of trading times for this reason. Unless you're working for one of these companies with access, you can't beat them, and the conditions have already been baked in.