a neighborhood numbers game takes a hundred people who can each spare a dollar, not enough to do anything on its own, and makes one person with enough money to do a little good
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universal lottery. every thousandth atom contributes an electron to one lucky winner
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That's a great pro lottery argument.
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i’d call this Thelma & Louise accelerationism but really isn’t it all
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I dunno, whether the winner can manage or not is entirely up to them, and AFAIK outside of exotically dysfunctional (and thus well publicized) cases there's little data on how well the megawinners do.
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For the record I could see myself buying a ticket for jackpots of above 300 millions (lump sum post tax)
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I have to say, this is something I have never seen anyone else tweet about, and it’s making me think. I mean this as high praise.
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both the death rate and bankruptcy rate after a large lottery win are exceptionally high
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The idea is to give one person enough money that they never have to worry about money again, because that's something to aspire to in a way that getting $100 isn't. But of course it doesn't work that way because of assholes. This is why we can't have nice things.
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Lotteries are miraculously negative-feedback-proof; increasing the price of each subsequent ticket wouldn't really harm the quantity sold. It's not done only because it's logistically difficult.
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