It serms incredible to me to give over a billion dollars to a random person.

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Considering how many of their lives go off the rails, yes.

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They should split it up into $100,000 increments. Yeah, that’s not a billion, but that could still be life-changing for thousands of families.

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That’s not how lotteries work.

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In the UK, you can take a lump sum or instalments just like this . Infact your get more if you take the instalments.

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I may act different if I actually saw half a billion dollars in my account but I would I’d buy a house and car for each family member, save 20mil to live off the interest, and then donate the rest towards projects like spine repair medicine or desalination or something. Or maybe buy a shitload of solar panels for homes.

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How about lending your old pal kryllic a couple of bucks?

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And that’s why it sucks.

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it is weird how people say that getting a lot of money, the thing whole world is based on, all humans work every day to get, is the worst thing that happened to them.

Shakespeare - shot by someone who was trying to get his money

David Lee Edwards - was a convict, spent a lot in several years, lost all his money and died.

Jeffree Dampier: was sleeping with his wife’s sister, shot and killed by her and her husband.

Urooj Khan: coughs blood and dies the next day of getting his check. Cyanide poisoning.

Michael Karoll: “parties, coke, hookers, cars”

Harrell Jr: spent too much, lent too much, killed himself after his wife left him.

Stories go on and on. Almost all of them can be linked to already unstable, unwell people, their inability to manage the money properly or them not shutting up about the huge cash pile they recently sat on, to the trashy, money crazed people around them.

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It’s because most people who win don’t have good habits with money, and they don’t know how to keep their mouth shut. They tell people, and they spend it frivolously.

You find out fast if your friends or family love you or not.

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I mean the very fact that they are spending money on the lottery tells me that chances are they have bad spending habits.

And please, you, yes you, the person that buys lottery tickets and feels the need to explain to me how it’s ok, we get it you’re built different and aren’t addicted or whatever, but there are still so many better things you could be spending it on.

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I’m sure there are 100 things you spend money on that we could say the same for.

Jesus, people act like it’s impossible to play the lottery without ruining your life.

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You sound like a recent Econ grad wielding little fun facts you learned to throw in peoples faces. Unnecessarily judgmental. People waste money on all kinds of things every day. It’s not a problem if it isn’t being done to inappropriate levels.

Hurr durr tax on the poor.

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“voluntary tax on the poor”

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There should be a cap on maximum wealth / revenu

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The public opinions on Lemmy are fucking daffy. So on top of everything else, yall are cool with predatory gambling system that randomly ruins one person’s life?

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By saying you’re not “cool” with the lottery, does that mean you want it abolished? I don’t like the lottery. I don’t think it should be outlawed. Would you classify me as either cool with it or daffy?

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Certainly less daffy than the people playing it or praising it. I don’t know your reason why you think a state function that harms people for money should be allowed to exist, but I’m guessing it’s not a very rational one.

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Help me out, who’s life is being ruined?

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check out the mortality rate of lottery winners, or other outcomes

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Just did and got a bunch of conflicting information. Do you have a source?

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