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The game is also advocating playing on the lottery as investing in your future. That's not even the right message to send out.
by gcp 15y ago
The game is also advocating playing on the lottery as investing in your future.
That's not even the right message to send out.
- driftsumi-e 15y agoI don't think much encouragement is needed there. I hear the phrase "If / When I win the lottery..." cited too often as a cure-all. That weekly or daily lottery allotment would be better spent elsewhere but unfortunately isn't.
- lurker19 15y agoNon-linear utility of money, especially when negative money is involved.
- hugh3 15y agoI didn't buy the lottery ticket in the game, but now I'm curious -- I wonder if they bothered to code up a one-in-a-million chance that if the player buys a lottery ticket they'll actually win. That would be pretty cool. "You won the lottery! You gain forty million dollars! OK, you were lucky this time, but the point about poverty still stands, okay?"