RE: Why Do People Play the Lottery?
Playing the lottery is far worse than just a tax on stupid.
What the lottery people never show you is that all the winners (there may be one that is not) are broker, unhappier, and fatter then before they won.
The biggest problem is that money does not fix your life.
Money does not make one rich.
So, if you have a dream of owning a restaurant, go for it. Get hired as a manager of something similar. Learn accounting. Retrain your mind to think in terms of cash flow. This leads to success.
Playing the lottery, is just trying to distract yourself from all your bills, for a moment. The hope of getting out of the rut that you call your life.
It is a costly distraction. Just like television. It does not lead to any happiness, or dream fulfilment. And, if you are very, very unlucky, you may get to find out that money does not fix your problems.
This is very true, I ran into some of these stats when I was researching for this piece
great advice
Generally though, people who are attracted to playing the lottery have a mentality that prevents them from knowing how to sensibly use and invest their rewards if they do win
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People think they're lucky to win. Dreamers!
life is a chance game
Money does fix your life. Try living on borderline poverty and you'll see why. I ate oatmeal with warm water because I couldn't afford milk. Personally I'd invest most of my lottery money, since I'm already used to be low maintainance and pretty much Spartan.
Yep, have that $29 a week grocery thing beat too.
But, time after time after time, it is shown that giving a man on the street a lot of money, will result in them being still out on the street.
Here is the thing broken down.
A middle class broke person will usually pick themselves back up, and can totally use some money to give them a leg up.
A poor broke person will blow any money given to them, and be just as broke. Or they will be worse off. If you have a heroin addiction, being broke keeps you alive.
Give trump a small loan of a million dollars, and he will make a fortune.
Give the average middle class person a loan of a million dollars, and it will just leak through their finger tips.
Basically, you have to find an entrepreneur who has already worked out cash flow, who is at the point where he only needs an infusion of cash. And then, that person can become rich.
To become rich, you do not need any money.
And, money does not make one rich.
Btw most lotto winners burn their winnings in a Very short time.
Yep! And most gain weight.