Re:America's new favorite pastime: The lottery
by exogeny on Friday July 29, 2022 @12:10PM
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I don’t think it’s particularly baffling to believe that potentially winning $600mm is attractive to a lot of people in a country where the top 1% control 15x the wealth as the bottom 50% in sum and where wages have stagnated to such a large degree.
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Re:America's new favorite pastime: The lottery
by jshzglr on Friday July 29, 2022 @12:14PM
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Right because 600m wouldn’t be attractive elsewhere.
Re:America's new favorite pastime: The lottery
by elefanten on Friday July 29, 2022 @12:19PM
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Gp is referencing US political slap fights from the last week (Biden admin declaring US is not in recession).
It’s a joke comment.
Re:America's new favorite pastime: The lottery
by adamrezich on Friday July 29, 2022 @12:31PM
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in the words of a wise man, "not a joke"—I truly thought we were in a recession, but the updated definitions and Wikipedia article lock proved me wrong!
Re:America's new favorite pastime: The lottery
by lesuorac on Friday July 29, 2022 @12:54PM
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Recession is one of those words like Abortion where everybody has their own definition.
The US officially [1] goes by what NBER says and NBER doesn't call recessions/etc until several quarters after it starts. So any talk right now is speculation and you may speculate correctly but you might not.
Re:America's new favorite pastime: The lottery
by adamrezich on Friday July 29, 2022 @01:26PM
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I didn't realize the definition of "abortion" was up for debate, I thought merely the parameters defining when it should or shouldn't be allowed were.