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(12-03-2023, 06:45 AM)music is magic Wrote: I think the lottery is rigged. What do you guys think?
I can't address things in Japan, but generally speaking, you and many MANY others think it is somehow rigged/fixed... or at least a 'deception' at work.
The issuing lottery authority usually gains money at least equal to the amount it pays out whenever it does. The odds of significant payout are astronomically small, so other than that they just 'keep' the money.
The amounts of actual payout are extremely small, relatively speaking, compared to the amount of money they "make."
Here are some interesting comments which seem to show a lot of folks decrying lottery as an opportunistic exploitation of those who can least afford it.
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A co-worker was standing in line after work to buy a lotto ticket with only a short time left before they colsed; a guy cut in front of him, and being a mild manored fello he just let him go ahead.
When his turn came, he bought ONE ticket...for $1.00...and won $1,00,000.00! Had he not let a jerk cut in front of him, said jerk may have been the new millionaire.
Poetic justice.
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I dont get why people would buy a ticket on the chance they might win being stoned to death?
And no the good type of stoned.
I'll get back in my box.
I was not here.
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(12-03-2023, 08:47 PM)music is magic Wrote: when 7 people here have won the lottery a while back at one time, i said fk it, the lottery is fixed. 134 million people here and 7 people chose the same number and they won, fk it its fixed PERIORD.
I seem to remember seeing or reading something about families and friends of those who do nefareous deeds get paid off with lottery wins. Dubious, but maybe explains what you witnessed.
Who were those people, what is their connection and who may have aided their "luck"?
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(12-03-2023, 06:45 AM)music is magic Wrote: I think the lottery is rigged. What do you guys think?
I think it is mostly the governments doing what the Mafia and other groups did successfully.
IOW the lottery is just legalized numbers.
I also think it is excess taxation of those who least can afford it.
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I don't think it's rigged. I play powerball if the jackpot gets to a billion $$. I only buy one ticket. It's fun to dream about winning. But I don't get stupid about buying a bunch of tickets.
When ever I go in to play, it's always people who are obviously not well off playing the lottery. They are spending piles and piles of money on lottery tickets and scratch offs. Their clothes are old and they probably are on state aid by the looks of them, but they spend what they do have on lottery tickets.
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(03-10-2024, 08:47 AM)FlyersFan Wrote: I don't think it's rigged. I play powerball if the jackpot gets to a billion $$. I only buy one ticket. It's fun to dream about winning. But I don't get stupid about buying a bunch of tickets.
When ever I go in to play, it's always people who are obviously not well off playing the lottery. They are spending piles and piles of money on lottery tickets and scratch offs. Their clothes are old and they probably are on state aid by the looks of them, but they spend what they do have on lottery tickets.
It's cheap entertainment my former in-laws would sometimes buy lottery scratch-off cards for our kids, If they won any cash they would share, most times they would go back and get more cards.
What are you gonna do they meant well, it's like my ex-girlfriend's Mom she did this too, she just couldn't afford to get the kids lots of stuff and she was on a fixed income.
A huge chunk here goes towards education,scholarships etc.
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