Re:America's new favorite pastime: The lottery
by btkthrowaway1 on Friday July 29, 2022 @12:43PM
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That my whole point though. 10M isn't worth putting your name in "just in case"? That's why it's funny to me. It's like saying I wouldn't cross the street to pick up $10M but I would for $1B.
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Re:America's new favorite pastime: The lottery
by darth_avocado on Friday July 29, 2022 @12:47PM
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$10 is still a lot of money and that’s why you still see enough people buy lottery tickets.
But $1B brings in casuals from all over the place that usually don’t buy lottery tickets. For some it’s the entertainment value, for some it’s “ohh might as well”.
Re:America's new favorite pastime: The lottery
by cableshaft on Friday July 29, 2022 @02:59PM
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Well you'd be putting your name in almost every night then, because it's always at least $10 million in one of the lottos (pretty much). $10 * 365 days a year is $3650. That's a big sink of money for something you know for almost certain you're not going to win. But $10 three times a year you're also almost certainly going to lose, but you're only out $30.