@VirusMaster3073@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world • 3 months agoWhat is something that only exists because people are stupid?message-square204fedilinkarrow-up1145arrow-down15
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minus-square@OutlierBlue@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglish48•3 months agoLotteries. If people understood odds they’d never buy a ticket, or at least not in the numbers they do.
minus-square@DigDoug@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish25•3 months agoLotteries are a tax on hope, not stupidity.
minus-square@MonkeMischief@lemmy.todaylinkfedilink4•edit-23 months agoI’ve always heard they were a way to recoup tax funding from people below the tax-paying bracket, because they’d be the ones desperate enough to go for it. …which is seemingly more and more at the way we love our income inequality…
minus-square@Nollij@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglish2•3 months agoYou have a better chance of literally being Brad Pitt than you do if winning the lottery.
Lotteries. If people understood odds they’d never buy a ticket, or at least not in the numbers they do.
Lotteries are a tax on hope, not stupidity.
I’ve always heard they were a way to recoup tax funding from people below the tax-paying bracket, because they’d be the ones desperate enough to go for it.
…which is seemingly more and more at the way we love our income inequality…
You have a better chance of literally being Brad Pitt than you do if winning the lottery.