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>With the lottery, it's so boring and there's such a time lag between action and response that intuitively it seems like it would be harder to get addicted Add

>With the lottery, it's so boring and there's such a time lag between action and response that intuitively it seems like it would be harder to get addicted Addictions don't reason. Win $10 and some people are hooked for life. > or harder for addiction to become really problematic. Example: a school teacher spending $200 a week on lotto tickets, not life devastating, but do we really want this in our society? This happens a lot. Lottos just trick the people with less money into paying more taxes on the hopes of "winning it big!" It's essentially a hope tax for the lower and middle class. I can think of better ways of collecting taxes.

Dylan16807 2y ago
>> With the lottery, it's so boring and there's such a time lag between action and response that intuitively it seems like it would be harder to get addicted > Addictions don't reason. That argument was specifically based on how gambling feels and not reasoning. > Win $10 and some people are hooked for life. That sucks, but ease of addiction is a spectrum.
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randomdata 2y ago
> Lottos just trick the people with less money into paying more taxes on the hopes of "winning it big!" How do you explain the school teacher spending $200 per week, then? The teachers here collectively own one of the world's largest hedge funds. These are very wealthy people.
- Clubber 2y ago
  Whoever told you that, you should stop listening to them.
  - randomdata 2y ago
    It was the teachers themselves who told me, but sage advice in general. You're quite right that teaching does tend to an attract a crowd that are out to lunch. Still, the portfolio is public knowledge, so we can also verify what they say. In this case a stopped watch is still right sometimes.
rty32 2y ago
Indeed, you can't argue state lotteries aren't gambling. But hey, there is a wide spectrum of how bad each form of gambling is, and lottery is very much on the lower end of it. Very, very few people spend $200 a week on lottery tickets -- they spend a few dollars here and there a week. (Spending $200 is just silly and barely increases the chance of winning or return -- if someone can't see that, well, can't stop them from wasting money) Of course, I would like state lotteries to be further restricted, but that's still much much better than online sports betting -- people can lose six digits of wealth quickly, and that has a much bigger and immediate impact on lives than state lotteries.

Dylan16807 2y ago

>> With the lottery, it's so boring and there's such a time lag between action and response that intuitively it seems like it would be harder to get addicted > Addictions don't reason. That argument was specifically based on how gambling feels and not reasoning. > Win $10 and some people are hooked for life. That sucks, but ease of addiction is a spectrum.

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randomdata 2y ago

> Lottos just trick the people with less money into paying more taxes on the hopes of "winning it big!" How do you explain the school teacher spending $200 per week, then? The teachers here collectively own one of the world's largest hedge funds. These are very wealthy people.

Clubber 2y ago
Whoever told you that, you should stop listening to them.
- randomdata 2y ago
  It was the teachers themselves who told me, but sage advice in general. You're quite right that teaching does tend to an attract a crowd that are out to lunch. Still, the portfolio is public knowledge, so we can also verify what they say. In this case a stopped watch is still right sometimes.

rty32 2y ago

Indeed, you can't argue state lotteries aren't gambling. But hey, there is a wide spectrum of how bad each form of gambling is, and lottery is very much on the lower end of it. Very, very few people spend $200 a week on lottery tickets -- they spend a few dollars here and there a week. (Spending $200 is just silly and barely increases the chance of winning or return -- if someone can't see that, well, can't stop them from wasting money) Of course, I would like state lotteries to be further restricted, but that's still much much better than online sports betting -- people can lose six digits of wealth quickly, and that has a much bigger and immediate impact on lives than state lotteries.