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One of my coworkers probably spends a 200-300 bucks on lotto tickets a month. He complains about how he can't afford healthcare at the same time.
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Neukoln19 posted:On a related note lottery winners often have sucky lives post-winning. like op said, that's just a matter of the odds of any given lotto winner being a dumb poor person
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When my neighbour won $10,000 in the lottery, I told him "on average, you lost money buying that ticket, so it was a bad move." I did not get any lottery winner generosity from him.
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Sep 15, 2014 19:00
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Neukoln19 posted:On a related note lottery winners often have sucky lives post-winning. im pretty confident if i was to win this weeks euromillions jackpot of £58 million i would have a pretty loving great life
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www posted:im pretty confident if i was to win this weeks euromillions jackpot of £58 million i would have a pretty loving great life same
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Neukoln19 posted:On a related note lottery winners often have sucky lives post-winning. yeah the people who would be best served by lottery winnings don't buy the tickets in the first place rest assured if you give me a winning lottery ticket my life will improve
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Sep 15, 2014 19:01
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Bip Roberts posted:We should probably ban lotteries and just instate a straight-up stupid tax. Paying taxes should just include lottery tickets so these people can get their fix.
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Sep 15, 2014 19:01
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zoux posted:They are numbers games that the government runs that basically only poor people participate in, spending a disproportionately high amount of their own income in a game they will never win and also that money never finds its way into the programs it is supposed to. gently caress lottolords forever and quit throwing your scratched off ticket trash on my sidewalk 
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Sep 15, 2014 19:02
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WAMPA_STOMPA posted:its funny to watch people pay to be bad at math This is that dumb little quip that is repeated over and over by dumb people who want to show the world how "smart" they are on Facebook every time the MegaMillions/Powerball goes above $500 million.
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Sep 15, 2014 19:03
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zoux posted:They are numbers games that the government runs that basically only poor people participate in, spending a disproportionately high amount of their own income in a game they will never win and also that money never finds its way into the programs it is supposed to. its irl hunger games just let it happen
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Sep 15, 2014 19:03
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The Gadfly posted:*Goon buys account on an internet forum in the year 2014 to post "im gay" in every thread* posting i'm gay actually enters you into the lottary here on SA
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Sep 15, 2014 19:03
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I'll buy a $1 scratcher every now and then. Fun way to spend a minute. Some times you win sometimes you don't but no real loss if you do.
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Sep 15, 2014 19:05
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I only buy powerball when it's really high and everyone is playing. I spend like $10 bucks for 5 tickets just to be a part of something once or twice a year. I also enjoy having the "What would you do with 500 mil!" conversation.
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Sep 15, 2014 19:07
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Hector Beerlioz posted:I'll buy a $1 scratcher every now and then. Fun way to spend a minute. Some times you win sometimes you don't but no real loss if you do. like i guess that guy who spends $300 a month is an unmitigated maroon, but someone spending a few bucks a month on a fun game is not something to get upset about
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Sep 15, 2014 19:08
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Mahoning posted:This is that dumb little quip that is repeated over and over by dumb people who want to show the world how "smart" they are on Facebook every time the MegaMillions/Powerball goes above $500 million. i always think it's funny when people abstain from playing when it's a $20 million jackpot, but once it's high and in the news, they get caught up in the frenzy. as if winning $20 million just wasn't good enough for them.
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Sep 15, 2014 19:09
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Hector Beerlioz posted:I'll buy a $1 scratcher every now and then. Fun way to spend a minute. Some times you win sometimes you don't but no real loss if you do. Yeah that's fine Also I think the gov't takes half your winnings anyway?
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LifeSizePotato posted:i always think it's funny when people abstain from playing when it's a $20 million jackpot, but once it's high and in the news, they get caught up in the frenzy. as if winning $20 million just wasn't good enough for them. The funny thing is most people I know that play a lot always say "Hmph! Well it's only going to be like $8 million after the government gets their greedy paws on it! "
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Sep 15, 2014 19:11
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Sephiroth_IRA posted:Paying taxes should just include lottery tickets so these people can get their fix. OP saying gambling disproportionately hurts poor people is like saying substance abuse disproportionately hurts poor people. It's a temporary escape to a lovely life and you're trying to treat a symptom rather than the actual problem.
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pfs Write posted:posting i'm gay actually enters you into the lottary here on SA You may have already won aids!
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ArbitraryC posted:It's a temporary escape to a lovely life and you're trying to treat a symptom rather than the actual problem. exactly i play scratchers or powerball every once in a while, just for a quick/cheap thrill, but when i see a scraggly poor person with a handful of losing scratchers tickets, i honestly get kind of depressed
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I bet OP gets really mad when he sees a poor buying a bottle of coke from a vending machine. Ugh he just wasted a buck fifty on something that doesn't improve his life.
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Sep 15, 2014 19:16
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op is pretty right, it's one thing to just buy a scratcher now and then on a dumb lark, but your politicians suck major casino dick, which should come as no surprise https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DF_o_omA3l0
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Sep 15, 2014 19:18
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Cokes cost a buck fifty?
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I buy lottery tickets to fund poor people
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Sep 15, 2014 19:19
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LifeSizePotato posted:but when i see a scraggly poor person with a handful of losing scratchers tickets, i honestly get kind of depressed
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Sep 15, 2014 19:19
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yah it's p. hosed the one here spends less than a tenth of what their advertising budget* is on helping compulsive gamblers *state monopoly, why do they need to advertise aggressively to the tune of a $100m each year?
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Sep 15, 2014 19:24
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also pretty hosed up: lotto gets a pass because it funds public schools but at least in michigan it accounts for like 5% of schools' funding I only checked the school I went to but it could be more for other places. I guess that would also be hosed up becuase how can you expect teachers to warn poor kids about the lotto when it pays their salary?? hosed up imo. hosed up.
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Sep 15, 2014 19:25
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In Australia cigarettes are now US$1 each unless youre buying a carton
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Sep 15, 2014 19:26
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nothing is worse than those dick holes who love scratchers and try and turn in like 50 at a time while buying another 100
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Sep 15, 2014 19:26
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zoux posted:The top marginal tax rate should be 90%. Agreed
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SplitSoul posted:*state monopoly, why do they need to advertise aggressively to the tune of a $100m each year? because you don't need lottery tickets to live, so people won't buy them if you don't remind them they exist?
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Sep 15, 2014 19:27
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my friend bought two lotto tickets one time and won $800 so ur wrong op
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nimh posted:In Australia cigarettes are now US$1 each unless youre buying a carton drat...
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Azerban posted:because you don't need lottery tickets to live, so people won't buy them if you don't remind them they exist? keyword being aggressively. i'm being reminded once or twice every commercial break if i watch tv.
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Sep 15, 2014 19:29
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When I was a little kid, my grandpa would buy my sister and me a few scratch-offs when we would visit them over the summer. Anything we won he'd use to buy us more tickets and we'd get the winnings when we went back home. It was nice of him because he knew we were bored out of our minds for the two weeks we were there because there's nothing to do in Central Pennsylvania after the fourth day.
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Sep 15, 2014 19:30
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the poor gamble alot, but the elderly poor gamble a poo poo ton if my local casino demographic has any bearing
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Darth123123 posted:the poor gamble alot, but the elderly poor gamble a poo poo ton if my local casino demographic has any bearing yeah I went to a Louisiana casino for my brother's batchelor party and there was a dude in a motorized wheelchair with oxygen and wearing literally a hospital gown and nothing else playing the slots.
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zoux posted:yeah I went to a Louisiana casino for my brother's batchelor party and there was a dude in a motorized wheelchair with oxygen and wearing literally a hospital gown and nothing else playing the slots. and likely type 2 diabeetus
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zoux posted:People do such a bad job of living their own lives they really shouldn't have very much financial agency imho. very agreed
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zoux posted:yeah I went to a Louisiana casino for my brother's batchelor party and there was a dude in a motorized wheelchair with oxygen and wearing literally a hospital gown and nothing else playing the slots. uhhh yeh thats called freedom welcome to america
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