>but it also doesn't include the additional value of the money if you invested it wisely I don't understand how this could be brought into the argument at all.

>but it also doesn't include the additional value of the money if you invested it wisely I don't understand how this could be brought into the argument at all. Surely we are just speaking about present value of the money and ignoring how it's spent? Money that gets invested instead of spent wasn't different in quantity in any way. Investing the money you spent on the ticket instead of buying the ticket was also a possibility-- presumably we didn't account for that since we called it a $2 ticket.