There are other possibilities you perhaps are not considering.
Humor, Entertainment, Unrealistic Optimism among others.
A person can be mathematically astute and optimistically , or
Personally I did quite well in math, and am under no mistaken assumption
that winning big is even a remote possibility.
I'm pretty sure it's more likely money will fall from the sky and hit me,
killing me instantly than to win the lottery.
To me it's just a form of mindless entertainment, costing me no more than
what I might spend on a movie once in a while.
Some people go and lay down $13 (or more) to spend two hours in a dark room
with a bunch of strangers and try to be entertained by the latest crap put
out by Holly-weird.
There are many other stupid attempts to pass time in a humorous or
entertaining way out there that can cost more or less.
If you pay a buck and think about the stupid possibility that you may just
win the big one and then the time comes and you check your number and find
you are a loser you could choose to be amused.
Or think of it like the totem in the movie inception, losing = reality.
If you happen to win $1 or $30 or $100 then woohoo - you beat the odds.
If you roll whatever you win into the next cycle and keep that going for a
while?
I put in a buck a while back and have been playing solely with their money
since.
It's all in how you think about it, you make your choice and you live with
it.
Play, don't play, ridicule those who do - however there are 7 former
coworkers in New York right now who are happy they tossed a little money in,
and the 8th who "didn't feel lucky" that day.
Rick (lottery retirement plan?) Bastedo
From: David Lieb <72spridget@gmail.com>
To: Tim Collins <thcollin@mtu.edu>, Spridgets <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2011 10:28:21 -0500
Subject: Re: [Spridgets] The Lottery - off topic
Tim,
As has been said before, "Lotteries are a tax on people who are bad at
math."
In the Illinois Lotto version (that was going to end forever all of
our problems with funding education), mathematically speaking the best
way to increase your winnings is to play the same number twice so you
will get 2/x of the winnings rather than 1/(x-1). If that doesn't cure
you...
David L
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