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The commercials I see here for the DC/VA lottery are quite disgusting. I'm "kind of" fine with the state running it. But they should not be advertising on TV.
by grubbs 4y ago
The commercials I see here for the DC/VA lottery are quite disgusting.
I'm "kind of" fine with the state running it. But they should not be advertising on TV.
- aaomidi 4y agoYep. They use dark patterns and FOMO to push people.
- ISL 4y agoWashington State Lottery has a slogan, "It's good to play!" It really should be, "Playing the lottery is a pretty terrible idea and we're going to, on average, take your money. If you still want to play, fine, but cheeseburgers really are better than lottery tickets. Wealthy people got wealthy by putting their money into index funds and savings accounts."
- FredPret 4y ago... or running lotteries
- ISL 4y agoTouché! Washington State Lottery, "It's good to take your money!"
- LincolnPaige 4y ago
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- Dylan16807 4y ago> Wealthy people got wealthy by putting their money into index funds and savings accounts. No they didn't. Not with the implied "as an alternative to lottery tickets". You could probably find a handful of very well paid and very lottery addicted people constantly blowing up that income. For 99.99[more 9s]% of people, the cost of lottery tickets is not the difference between getting wealthy and not getting wealthy. Even if they buy a bunch every payday.
- WalterBright 4y agoI know people who have.
- afc 4y agoYeah, and I know someone who got rich by buying the lottery. Anecdotal evidence doesn't really prove anything, does it?
- WalterBright 4y ago80% of American millionaires are self made. https://www.amazon.com/Millionaire-Next-Door-Surprising-Americas/dp/1589795474/ https://www.amazon.com/Millionaire-Next-Door-Surprising-Amer... Consider also that the US was populated by people who arrived with nothing. It wasn't wealthy people that came here from Europe.
- TimPC 4y agoThis number is going down with every home inheritance and isn’t stable across generations. It’s largely a function of homes being bought for low values appreciating to over $1 million and not a function of labour markets.
- WalterBright 4y agoIt doesn't sound like you read the book. Before dismissing it, I suggest taking a look at it. It costs $1.38. Not really a big investment in something that could make you wealthy. It's well worth it even if it has only one good idea you can use in it.
- ZeroGravitas 4y agoDoes your use of “self-made" have any concrete definition? I looked on the related website and the very first blog entry is about how you can teach your children the skills they identify as leading to wealth. And yet, it appears that the claim is that, in general, people don't get taught these skills, and some people discover them through sheer grit and determination. Which seems contradictory. And that's putting aside the weird concept where someone who earns 10 million and spends 9 million on stuff, is ranked as the same as someone who lives a meagre life and dies with 1 million in the bank. I'm not sure that concept translates well into the commonly accepted definition of millionaire.
- mod 4y agoSomeone's job is to increase the numbers. I think they should spend the lottery money to hire someone who's job is to decrease the numbers.