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Most people buy lotto tickets so they can spend a few minutes in blissful daydream before they come crashing back down to their financial reality. It's like a v
by nsxwolf 5y ago
Most people buy lotto tickets so they can spend a few minutes in blissful daydream before they come crashing back down to their financial reality. It's like a very cheap drug. It makes them feel good, so it serves a purpose. Feeling good is good.
- lapetitejort 5y agoHaving read horror stories of people winning the lottery, I can't even daydream about being rich. I would much rather be an average wage-earner than have my life be destroyed by money.
- mythrwy 5y agoUnlike you I'd be willing to take my chances with life destruction in this case. (mostly because I think it would avoid many of the life destroying parts)
- Spivak 5y agoCan't you just do literally nothing with the money? I think my "being rich" dream is just having my current life but instead of working living off the interest.
- robotresearcher 5y agoNot working would not be your current life.
- Spivak 5y agoOrdering a pizza I otherwise wouldn't have with the money would not be my current life. It's a question of degrees. If I win a 100M lottery and do literally nothing except hand it over to my financial advisor to invest at a modest 4% return and draw a generous 500k salary from that I would still be making 3.5 million compounded compounded per year. This is more or less how retirement works so it's a pretty well-trodden path.
- JohnWhigham 5y agoI mean, when it's mostly stupid people playing the lottery, all that money isn't going to make them magically smarter.
- prawn 5y agoTo "have a flutter" is a pretty common phrase in Australia, and maybe the UK. A quick thrill and then it fades.