Should this woman still be allowed to collect state aid?

[knight_shadow]

Why was she playing the lottery?

[AlphaFrog]

Originally Posted by knight_shadow

Why was she playing the lottery?

Lottery = tax on people who are bad at math.

Also, obviously this is a generalization which I don't have data to back, in my experience most people that play the lottery are not in the situation that they should be throwing away even $5 a week on it (or however much it is). Most people I know who DO have the extra "throw away" money only play when it's ridiculously high, and even then they know they are throwing their money away.


The woman from the article is a moron, plain and simple.

[DaemonSeid]

Originally Posted by AlphaFrog

Lottery = tax on people who are bad at math.

Also, obviously this is a generalization which I don't have data to back, in my experience most people that play the lottery are not in the situation that they should be throwing away even $5 a week on it (or however much it is). Most people I know who DO have the extra "throw away" money only play when it's ridiculously high, and even then they know they are throwing their money away.


The woman from the article is a moron, plain and simple.

No math needed to be done...it's almost a truth. 5 dollars is minimal.

here is one study on how much poor people spend on lottery

This statement sticks out right here because I know so many people that could relate:

My parents never played the lottery, but I have a grandmother who did -- and probably still does -- and I had a lot of uncles and aunts who also played. One might think that would have influenced me to play, but if anything, it probably did the opposite. After all, even when I was eight years old, I could see that my uncles and aunts, despite playing the lottery every day, weren't exactly rich. And my relatives always made it clear that they knew they were on a fool's errand.