Re:Spent – Poverty Simulator (2011)
by klenwell on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @12:31PM
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One of my favorite Futurama jokes (spoken by the haunted robotic future-teller arcade machine):
Look, do you want false hope or not?
Hope is all some people can afford.
On the other hand, money is not the solution to all life's problems. What I would literally wish for my worst enemy: you win that Mega Millions drawing tonight.
Look, do you want false hope or not?
Hope is all some people can afford.
On the other hand, money is not the solution to all life's problems. What I would literally wish for my worst enemy: you win that Mega Millions drawing tonight.
Recommended listening from This American Life:
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/329/nice-work-if-you-can-ge...
He's talked with thousands of lottery winners, and the vast majority, he says, wish they'd never won.