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"A reasonable person knows they can't have a fighter jet." I'm not sure I buy this argument. A reasonable person knows they can't have a billion dollars for wi
by xenocyon 7y ago
"A reasonable person knows they can't have a fighter jet."
I'm not sure I buy this argument. A reasonable person knows they can't have a billion dollars for winning a silly game. Yet, a billion dollars is indeed (sometimes) the Powerball award, and you can't deny the award to the winner saying "obviously you should have known we wouldn't actually give you the billion dollars at the end".
The lesson should have been for Pepsi: don't do the promo if you can't afford the prize. Instead, they were happy to get the free advertising and yank the prize away at the end.
- EpicEng 7y ago>I'm not sure I buy this argument. A reasonable person knows they can't have a billion dollars for winning a silly game. Yet, a billion dollars is indeed (sometimes) the Powerball award, and you can't deny the award to the winner saying "obviously you should have known we wouldn't actually give you the billion dollars at the end". How is that unreasonable? How do they 'know' that considering lotteries absolutely do pay out? It's perfectly reasonable to expect that a state/Nationwide lottery will pay out what it says it will pay out. The entire point of a lottery is that many pay and a few win. A barrier jet as a prize is not in any way reasonable.