The Powerball is soon to reach 1.5 bil by next Wednesday

[Foxscotch]

bullstuff
how do you know what someone wants to do with the money

they can do whatever they want with the hypothetical money they win, it doesn't matter. but people don't buy lottery tickets every day/week with the intent to provide for their family. they do it because they have a gambling problem
even people who only buy them occasionally are just doing it for the same reason they'd gamble at poker or something. it's exciting (somehow), and if you don't win, you're only out a couple of dollars, so it's easy to justify it

your plans for the money are irrelevant, I'm talking about why you're buying the tickets in the first place

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[Alyx Vance]

people don't play the lottery as an attempt to provide for their family

I didn't realize you can read thoughts, thanks for the insight!

they can do whatever they want with the hypothetical money they win, it doesn't matter. but people don't buy lottery tickets every day/week with the intent to provide for their family. they do it because they have a gambling problem
even people who only buy them occasionally are just doing it for the same reason they'd gamble at poker or something. it's exciting (somehow), and if you don't win, you're only out a couple of dollars, so it's easy to justify it

your plans for the money are irrelevant, I'm talking about why you're buying the tickets in the first place

Just because you're greedy and wouldn't help others doesn't mean others won't. There are people (like ourself) who wish to win so we can get out of a financial stuff-hole and to leave a better life for the younger ones in the family.

A poor woman collecting welfare won the lottery.
She was still collecting welfare even after she won the lottery.
Bitch went to jail.
Dies a couple years later after drugs. Leaves 2 kids without a mother.

That's her though, not everyone.

[Foxscotch]

Just because you're greedy and wouldn't help others doesn't mean others won't.

ok
you're not helping anyone by buying a $2 lottery ticket. you are doing the opposite of helping someone because that's like a loaf of bread right there
if you are genuinely playing the lottery as a means to an end, you should definitely reconsider, and you should probably take a close look at your other financial decisions too, because it's unlikely that they're much better

[Alyx Vance]

ok
you're not helping anyone by buying a $2 lottery ticket. you are doing the opposite of helping someone because that's like a loaf of bread right there
if you are genuinely playing the lottery as a means to an end, you should definitely reconsider, and you should probably take a close look at your other financial decisions too, because it's unlikely that they're much better

The point is to try and win so you had funds

[shitlord]

ok
you're not helping anyone by buying a $2 lottery ticket. you are doing the opposite of helping someone because that's like a loaf of bread right there
if you are genuinely playing the lottery as a means to an end, you should definitely reconsider, and you should probably take a close look at your other financial decisions too, because it's unlikely that they're much better

you dont get it
not everyone is playing the lottery to go to the bahamas, and no one would pick a lottery ticket over a loaf of bread if they were that deep in the stuffter

[Alyx Vance]

you dont get it
not everyone is playing the lottery to go to the bahamas, and no one would pick a lottery ticket over a loaf of bread if they were that deep in the stuffter

Thank you, this is what I should have said.

[Foxscotch]

The point is to try and win so you had funds

but the thing is, you're not gonna win
instead, you're going to waste hundreds of dollars on not winning. hundreds of dollars that could've been spent feeding your family
or in the case that you don't have trouble affording your own food, could've gone towards feeding other families, since this is about "helping others" after all

[Alyx Vance]

but the thing is, you're not gonna win
instead, you're going to waste hundreds of dollars on not winning. hundreds of dollars that could've been spent feeding your family
or in the case that you don't have trouble affording your own food, could've gone towards feeding other families, since this is about "helping others" after all

I'm sorry I have higher hopes than you. Don't be such a pessimist.

[shitlord]

but the thing is, you're not gonna win
instead, you're going to waste hundreds of dollars on not winning. hundreds of dollars that could've been spent feeding your family
or in the case that you don't have trouble affording your own food, could've gone towards feeding other families, since this is about "helping others" after all

you dont get it
not everyone is playing the lottery to go to the bahamas, and no one would pick a lottery ticket over a loaf of bread if they were that deep in the stuffter

[Foxscotch]

I'm sorry I have higher hopes than you. Don't be such a pessimist.

hopes are irrelevant
you could try tripping up a random stranger every day, waiting for one of them to have a epiphany as they fall down, and decide to give you their family's fortune. that is probably more likely to happen than you winning the lottery, and it's free

I don't understand how this is a response to what I said

[Alyx Vance]

hopes are irrelevant
you could try tripping up a random stranger every day, waiting for one of them to have a epiphany as they fall down, and decide to give you their family's fortune. that is probably more likely to happen than you winning the lottery, and it's freeI don't understand how this is a response to what I said

You clearly don't understand in the least bit. That $200 investment could turn into a million, or it might not. $2 out of each paycheck isn't even bad, you're acting like you can buy a family a brand new house with that money.
-removed old math, had weeks wrong-

[Jubel]

48 weeks in a year

what
there are 52 weeks in a year

[Lord Tony®]

People who pick cash not only get less money but they tend to spend all of it in one shot.

At least with annuity options every year you forget up and become broke you'll get paid again the next year and hopefully learn the first time. It's essentially a fail safe for you for the next 30 years.

[Alyx Vance]

what
there are 52 weeks in a year

4 * 12 = 48?
forget me, I forgot the extra days. Redoing math
$1102.4 for 10 years, still not much. Wouldn't really feed a home for that long unless you really stretched it.

Oh, that cost is implying you never won a single prize, not even a $2 free ticket prize.