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The money and effort required to become the next president greatly exceeds the effort to purchase $10 in lottery tickets. I'll take my chances with the lotto.

• pcurve 11y ago
  yep. Chance of becoming president for 99.99999% of American is exactly 0.
  • meric 11y ago
    Let's say there are on average 10 "viable" presidential candidates per election cycle every 4 years. Over a 40 year time-frame (You can be elected president during approximately 40 years of your life, from your late thirties to your late seventies), there are total 400 viable presidential candidates. If 99.99999% of Americans have 0% chance of becoming president, that means you're saying only 3180 Americans have greater-than-zero chance of becoming president. I suggest it is a little more than that. Millions of Americans, aged 10 and under, have the potential to work towards becoming first a mayor of their small city, then a mayor of a big city, and then finally have a small positive chance of becoming president. If you have greater than zero chance of becoming a person who has a greater than zero chance of becoming president, then you have a greater than zero chance of becoming president, period. I suggest the number of such people is surely greater than 3180.
    • pcurve 11y ago
      Then 99.999% it is. ;-) That should cover enough number of people who have take even that first minor step towards becoming a career politician. :)