Question by dannyBOXINGchamp: Why do I feel like I should do the Lottery?
It’s been bugging me for a few days now. I reckon it’s because a couple recently won 45 million in the euro millions. It’s quite annoying because I don’t want to start gambling, and I think this might be the start of a gambling problem maybe? No one I know gambles so I don’t wanna start.

But how do I shake this feeling?

Best answer:

Answer by Stargazer
Do not start if you have never played…
i regret ever starting to play this disgusting game where prople are now been made filthy rich…
I have had a Hypnotist to stop me playing….

Answer by pdq
You feel that way because you are a NORMAL human being with normal hopes and dreams. There’s nothing wrong with that.

You are very wise to not want to start gambling. There will always be stories of people winning millions of dollars. Out of the 8 BILLION people on this planet, perhaps a thousand of them in our lifetime will be lucky enough to win a multimillion jackpot. Probably not even that many. So that breaks down to about 1 out of every 8 MILLION people on the planet who will be so lucky.

I’ve done the math on any one person’s chances, and it’s really not good. You could buy FIFTY tickets a week for the next 70 years of your life, and you STILL would have, for all PRACTICAL purposes, ZERO chance of ever hitting any sort of “lotto” style jackpot.

Stay wise. Stay leery of buying these tickets. Here are a couple more things to know about lottery companies that hopefully will make you not want to buy them:

Lottery companies take 50% of all the money right off the top. So for every 100,000 they collect, they only put about 50,000 to the prize pool. At a 50% payback rate, it easily makes buying lottery tickets the WORST bet on the planet. No other standard bet even comes close to being so bad.

One more detail. I live in the US, and last year alone over 70 BILLION dollars was wasted on lottery tickets! That’s more than was spent on the entire music and movie industry combined!

The lottery is nothing more than a TAX on the poor and on the ignorant.

Here is my final suggestion or advice. As I said, stay leery of buying these tickets. Still, that doesn’t mean you have to fear “starting gambling”. Allow yourself to OCCASIONALLY buy just ONE ticket. For 1 Euro once in a while, it may be worth it just to give you that dream of “hitting it big”.

As long as you understand that the only thing you’re buying is a dream, you shouldn’t need to be worried about “starting” any gambling problem.

Know better? Leave your own answer in the comments!

 

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