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What's the market that lotteries are supposed to "serve"? Taking money from poor people (lottery tickets are disproportionately bought by them) and giving them
by gruez 2y ago
What's the market that lotteries are supposed to "serve"? Taking money from poor people (lottery tickets are disproportionately bought by them) and giving them to the government, basically working out to an regressive tax?
- Apofis 2y agoIt's not really helping those poor people when those same lotteries are then bought by large corporations for profit.
- recursive 2y agoYou're right, but it's also not helping them either way. There was never any help to be had.
- throw16180339 2y agoPoor people bought tickets in the illegal numbers racket (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_game https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_game) before state lotteries existed.