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Humans are hard-wired to gamble and accept terrible odds. People know that it's almost impossible to win the lottery and yet so many of them keep buying tickets
by lacampbell 10y ago
Humans are hard-wired to gamble and accept terrible odds. People know that it's almost impossible to win the lottery and yet so many of them keep buying tickets every week.
I think you severely overestimate the average persons understanding of how gambling works.
- jondubois 10y agoActually I worked in a gambling company as a software engineer before so I understand pretty well how they think. Almost all gamblers know that the odds are not in their favour and yet they keep playing because they think they're special.