Is it not grotesque to give a random person 1.2 billion dollars in a lottery?
Is it not grotesque to give a random person 1.2 billion dollars in a lottery?
It serms incredible to me to give over a billion dollars to a random person.
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It's because most people who win don't have good habits with money, and they don't know how to keep their mouth shut. They tell people, and they spend it frivolously.
You find out fast if your friends or family love you or not.
I mean the very fact that they are spending money on the lottery tells me that chances are they have bad spending habits.
And please, you, yes you, the person that buys lottery tickets and feels the need to explain to me how it's ok, we get it you're built different and aren't addicted or whatever, but there are still so many better things you could be spending it on.
"voluntary tax on the poor"
You sound like a recent Econ grad wielding little fun facts you learned to throw in peoples faces. Unnecessarily judgmental. People waste money on all kinds of things every day. It's not a problem if it isn't being done to inappropriate levels.
Hurr durr tax on the poor.
Spending money on something that is less likey to return a profit than it is to get hit by lightning isn't exactly an indicator of financial literacy, tbf.
No but see he made personal attacks, which proves their point...somehow.
But an insignificant amount of money for an insignificant change of being rich isn't a big deal either.
How much return do you get for a Starbucks? Some things are just for enjoyment and people enjoy the existence of that chance, however slim.
Not me personally, but I totally get it.
The problem is if you spend an insignificant amount of money every day the total amount doesn't stay insignificant for long.
Absolutely, but that's a very different point to the one I was responding to. The only point I was making is that plenty of people responsibly waste money on things every day, for some people it's the lottery, for others it's Starbucks.
Buying a lottery ticket doesn't instantly mean you're bad with money.
Let me guess, you buy lottery tickets?
This happens every time the lottery is discussed lol.
Nope
I just understand that the world is mainly shades of grey instead of the black and white version most people here seem to see.
Sure bud I totally believe you, thats why you are arguing with everyone that the lottery is good and great and smart.
I literally said in my post I knew people like you were gonna come argue about it, and I couldn't care less. No matter how responsible you are, it's a waste of money, idgaf if you don't believe it. Have a nice day go do something else.
What is $1 x 100? 1,000?
Why is that relevant to people who responsibly play the lottery?
The lottery is literally a regressive tax both in concept and practice and I'm not really sure how you can view it any other way.
Ok but you sound like an asshole trying to belittle someone for the most basic facts. I love how you talk down and try and frame me as a youth, guessing you're either pretty young yourself or need to stop with pathetic ageism personal attacks instead of debating the subject.
Also I guarantee you buy lottery tickets and are mad at the second paragraph, stay mad salty kid, spend your retirement fund on little pieces of paper.
I love how you talk down and try and frame me as a youth, guessing you’re either pretty young yourself
You chastise me for implying you are young, and then immediately call me young.
You then attack the use of ageism and proceed to do it to me after.
Wow what inconsistent stupidity.
I'm sure there are 100 things you spend money on that we could say the same for.
Jesus, people act like it's impossible to play the lottery without ruining your life.
It's possible to do hard drugs and not ruin your life too, but I wouldn't suggest it.
But you can appreciate that some do it without ruining their life right?
It doesn't make them good by any means. But people have done drugs and had good lives afterwards, just like playing the lottery.
Guessing you buy lottery tickets then?
You can stop any time and prove them wrong
I don't play the lottery at all.
I just don't also think that everyone who does is financially irresponsible.
I may act different if I actually saw half a billion dollars in my account but I would I'd buy a house and car for each family member, save 20mil to live off the interest, and then donate the rest towards projects like spine repair medicine or desalination or something. Or maybe buy a shitload of solar panels for homes.
How about lending your old pal kryllic a couple of bucks?
And that's why it sucks.
it is weird how people say that getting a lot of money, the thing whole world is based on, all humans work every day to get, is the worst thing that happened to them.
Shakespeare - shot by someone who was trying to get his money
David Lee Edwards - was a convict, spent a lot in several years, lost all his money and died.
Jeffree Dampier: was sleeping with his wife's sister, shot and killed by her and her husband.
Urooj Khan: coughs blood and dies the next day of getting his check. Cyanide poisoning.
Michael Karoll: "parties, coke, hookers, cars"
Harrell Jr: spent too much, lent too much, killed himself after his wife left him.
Stories go on and on. Almost all of them can be linked to already unstable, unwell people, their inability to manage the money properly or them not shutting up about the huge cash pile they recently sat on, to the trashy, money crazed people around them.