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There's a legendary Reddit comment that lays out the many, many other ways winning the lottery (or, more importantly, letting people know you won the lottery) i

• autarch 2y ago
  The Reddit comment is interesting, and I think the advice that starts in the reply is sound. But this person's list of lottery winner failures is a small list of people versus a very large group of winners. Surely it's not hard to cherry pick a bunch of worst case scenarios.
• raincole 2y ago
  The reddit comment says things like "Homicide (something like 20x more likely)" without citing the source of this statistics.
• croisillon 2y ago
  i am still willing to experiment, for science
  • fragmede 2y ago
    Unfortunately, you got put in the control group.
• dahart 2y ago
  That comment makes untrue claims and cites no sources. The claim about multi-million dollar jackpot winners is a viral meme that keeps making the rounds despite the people with the actual stats repeatedly trying to debunk it. It is not true that a huge percentage of winners go bankrupt. https://www.nefe.org/news/2018/01/research-statistic-on-financial-windfalls-and-bankruptcy.aspx https://www.nefe.org/news/2018/01/research-statistic-on-fina... https://www.reddit.com/r/PetPeeves/comments/18xqcbw/70_of_lottery_winners_go_bankrupt_within_a_few/ https://www.reddit.com/r/PetPeeves/comments/18xqcbw/70_of_lo...
  • dmonitor 2y ago
    I imagine that it's perpetuated by the myth that people who make a shitton of money "legitimately" (ie getting insanely lucky by inheritance, investing in a moonshot, or both) are somehow magically blessed with the wisdom to handle money in a way that commoners are not. Plus a dash of cope for all the people who will never touch that amount of money. Assurance that even those who gain a lot will be no better off (or worse off) than them.
    • gitgud 2y ago
      I also think the myth of “winners lose everything eventually” is a specific instance of general hate against gambling… AKA “the house always wins” philosophy