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>>China’s clever solution is to make every fapiao a lottery ticket. That's not "China's clever solution" but quite common. They had that in Mexico already more
by yaix 14y ago
>>China’s clever solution is to make every fapiao a lottery ticket.
That's not "China's clever solution" but quite common. They had that in Mexico already more than 10 years ago when I lived there (the cash register in stores whould print out these "lottery numbers" onto the receipt).
The fapiao in the picture is from Guangdong, elsewhere I have seen only 100 kuai with scratch off fields, not ten kuai.
- gurkendoktor 14y agoTaiwan also has a variation of this, being an even closer source of inspiration than Mexico for China. It's crazy - the cleaning staff at my dormitory was absolutely obsessive about fishing each one of them out of the trash, even though the chance of winning is terrible...a good indicator of how little some people's time is still worth, sadly.
- codemac 14y agoThe worth of someone's time is not determined from how much they are paid for that time.
- gurkendoktor 14y agoHm, what other conclusion would you draw from this?
- codemac 14y agoSimple: They think the possibility of earning more money for their time is less than the possibility of winning the lottery. It's a matter of desperation, not a matter of low worth.